Word info

evidentiality

Noun

Meaning

evidentiality (uncountable)

(linguistics) The encoding into a language of the source of information being communicated, so as to distinguish (for example) hearsay from something actually witnessed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Aikhenvald 2004, p. 3. In the Quechua languages, evidentiality is a three-term system: there are three evidential morphemes that mark varying levels of source information. Source: Internet

The sentence is understood to have the same evidentiality as the other sentences in the context. Source: Internet

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