Does any language with grammaticalized evidentiality permit extracting the evidentiality-marker with regards to mood and aspect?
I.e. the normal conditional
she killed the monster (I saw it myself) → if she killed the monster (no evidentiality?)
However, with a type of auxiliary, you would have
if she AUX (I saw it myself) killed the monster → if I had seen her kill the monsterFor a conlang, we could here permit counterfactual statements not to have any evidentiality marker on the embedded verb, whereas factual statements with counterfactual evidentials will have evidentiality on both.
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