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Conlangery #32: Evidentials

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Quechua, Quechuan, and the Inferential Sort of Evidential

In Quechua, the inferential sort of suppositional evidential is used when the speaker has really strong confidence in the statement. In Ladan, you have to be far too specific for it to be worthwhile. So within your language, if you're describing your own language and you've decided to go with evidentials, make sure that you're clear about all the different ways they can be used. It's like a whole lot of other grammaticalized things we've talked about.

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