Evidentiality Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/EvidentialityProperty
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|_ Abstract
|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Evidentiality Property
Direct SubConcepts:
AssumptiveEvidentiality AuditoryEvidentiality DeductiveEvidentiality DirectEvidentiality FolkloreEvidentiality HearsayEvidentiality IndirectEvidentiality InferentialEvidentiality OtherSourceEvidentiality OtherThanVisualEvidentiality SecondHandEvidentiality VisualEvidentiality
Definition:
Evidentiality denotes the basis that the speaker has for claiming that the event has occurred (or is going to take place). Appear to show a greater number of distinctions in the realis mood (especially in the past tense) than the irrealis mood. [Bhat 1999: 63-64, 70]
See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Evidentiality
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