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Phenomena. v. t. e. In linguistics, evidentiality[1][2] is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind. An evidential (also verificational or validational) is the particular grammatical element (affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates ...
Sep 29, 2015 · Introduction. Evidentiality is a grammatical category with source of information as its primary meaning—whether the speaker saw the event happen, did not see it but heard it, made an inference based on general knowledge or visual traces, or was told about it.
Aikhenvald, Alexandra (2004) Evidentiality (Oxford Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xxvii, 452. 1. Introduction. Evidentiality is a grammatical category arguably absent from English and many other European languages. In fact, according to the author of the volume reviewed here, although every language disposes of lexical and ...
First, evidentiality is a grammatical category. 5 All languages have lexical means for expressing source of information (I was told that p; I infer that p; apparently; it is said; etc.), but the term evidential is normally restricted to grammatical morphemes (affixes, particles, etc.). Second, an evidential marker must have source of information as its core meaning.
Evidentiality is a grammatical category with source of information as its primary meaning—whether the speaker saw the event happen (known as visual evidential), or heard it but didn't see it (non‐visual evidential), or made an inference based on general knowledge or visual traces (assumed evidential and inferential evidential respectively), or was told about it (known as reported ...
Dec 31, 2006 · Evidentiality is a grammatical category that has. source of information as its primary meaning – wheth-. er the narrator actually saw what is being described, or made inferences about it based ...
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Nov 4, 2004 · Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subcategory of epistemic or some other modality, nor of tense-aspect. Every language has some way of referring to the source of information, but not every language has grammatical evidentiality. In English expressions such as I guess, they say, I hear that, the alleged are not obligatory ...
