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Conlangery #32: Evidentials

Conlangery Podcast

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The 10 Aspects of Morphology

Most languages have evidentiality as an additional thing. Tibetan is my favorite example where it's synthetic, right? You can't pull evidential marking out of your verb in any way because to use the verb correctly at all, you have to use evidence marking. Your other choice are either what I call vodka noggle particles or free-range particles. For example, ketchup has one interesting little rule: The clic can happen on any word in the sentence, so long as it doesn't come after the verb.

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