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Can language describe reality? with Nick Enfield
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Do You See Variants of Languages That Are Dying?
Lying and misrepresenting or persuading is not part of life. But the question is, do you see some variants there? And this is not something that we have very good data about. There are systems in the world's languages where they're called evidentiality systems. In English, I have to mark on verbs if the event took place in the past. So my language requires me to mark this kind of tense difference. Now there are languages that require you to mark something different, which is known as evidentiality. It's a marking of weather. Quite a lot of languages have some kind of marking which requires you to put on record your source of the information that you're
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