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Evidentiality

Evidentiality meaning

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

Example sentences (2)

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.

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