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The Most Common Evidential System on the Planet
The most common evidential system on the planet is a simple two-way distinction. It distinguishes reported or indirect information and everything else. So, do you mean by reported it's specifically something you learn from another person? Right. There's all sorts of very complicated things that can happen there. Yeah, I mean, on the mood scale, there would be, you know, the moods imperative and then far away in my mind would be evidentials. They don't feel like a mood either.Yeah, they can, and we don't have the time to get into this, but mood marking and evidential marking can co-occur or notCo-occur.