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Evidentials meaning
plural of evidential
Example sentences (7)
Aikhenvald 2004, p. 79. An interesting contrast to omission of evidentials is overuse of evidentials.
Aikhenvald 2004, p. 358. Evidentials also show that being precise and stating the source of one’s information is extremely important in the language and the culture.
Cultural aspect By using evidentials, the Quechua culture has certain assumptions about the information being relayed.
If a speaker uses evidentials too much with no reason, competence is brought into question.
Position in the sentence The evidentials in the Quechua languages are "second position enclitics" that attach to the first constituent in the sentence as shown in the examples below.
Speakers are aware of the evidentials and even use proverbs to teach children the importance of being precise and truthful.
The evidentials follow any number of topics, marked by the topic marker –qa, and the element with the evidential must precede the main verb or be the main verb.