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Evidentiality

In linguistics, evidentiality 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 evidentiality. Languages with only a…

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Western history of the concept

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Evidentiality

Nodes128
Edges127
Triples189
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015625
Components1

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related to Further reading · 121
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related to Introduction · 12
Evidentiality → All, Danish, Dutch, English, European, German, Germanic, In, Romance, Some, Spanish, The
related to External links · 11
Evidentiality → Aikhenvald, Dena’ina Athabascanreview, Deprecated, Dixon, EvidentialityEvidentiality, Ferdinand, Haan's, Language, Linguist List, Modality, Power
related to history · 11
Evidentiality → American Indian Languages, Balkan Slavic, By, Franz Boas, Jacobsen, Jakobson, Kwakiutl, Roman Jakobson, The, The Handbook, Tsimshianic
related to Epistemic modality · 9
Evidentiality → Additionally, Aikhenvald, An English, For, Haan, Joseph, Kiefer, Other, Palmer
related to Evidentiality marking and other categories · 7
Evidentiality → Aikhenvald, Evidential, For, She, The, This, Western Apache
related to In English (not grammaticalized) · 6
Evidentiality → Aymara, Consider, English, In, Quechua, Yukaghir
related to Evidentiality (type II) · 4
Evidentiality → II, SensoryVisualNon-visualInferentialAssumedReportativeHearsayQuotative, The, These
related to Terminology · 2
Evidentiality → Although, Because

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languages evidential modality may evidentials language inferential evidence systems grammatical aikhenvald information sensory epistemic direct also english type example reportative

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
mediativeinstance ofLanguages with only a single evidential have had terms0.80text
médiatifinstance ofLanguages with only a single evidential have had terms0.80text
médiaphoriqueinstance ofLanguages with only a single evidential have had terms0.80text
and indirective used instead of evidential.Evidentiality may be direct or indirectinstance ofLanguages with only a single evidential have had terms0.80text
mirativesinstance ofor other grammatical elements0.80text
modal verbs developing evidential functions is fairly widespreadinstance ofor other grammatical elements0.80text
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityPalmer0.60section
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityKiefer0.60section
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityOther0.60section
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityAn English0.60section
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityFor0.60section
Evidentialityrelated to Epistemic modalityHaan0.60section

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