Friday, October 9, 2015

Detail #218: Inverse Evidentiality

Certain verbs could imaginably have default evidentialities, and it's imaginable that these would not mark the evidentiality for the default one at all, but use some marker for the other evidentiality.

Further, one could easily imagine that different person markings imply different evidentialities for certain verbs! For example, "I snore" might behave differently as far as default evidentiality goes than "you snore" does.

(Thanks badconlangingideas' editor for the idea.)

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