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How Do You Talk About Dreams?
The Bible for the subject of evidentiality is written by Alexandra Aikonvault. And she talks about dreams a little bit, but one of the articles in the link we have is an entire article about different languages handling and dreams. Unfortunately, it's in languages that don't have really nice overt evidentiality marking so still. So how do you- Well, let's talk about pragmatics a little bit before we get to the morphology. Not every group interprets a hearsay evidential the same. In some cultures, if you use a hearsay, that bolsters the truth. That's me saying I'm not making crap up. Someone else said it too