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Languages with evidentiality as a language of science
OK, evidentiality is not a grammatical category in English. But English has other means to express evidentiality when needed, e.g., vocabulary choice. In scientific and scholar publications you will ...
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What types of evidentials tend to be used for statements about religion, mythology, etc.?
So here are some examples from Ecuadorian Quechua.
First of all, Aikhenvald (2004: 43) classes the Quechua language family as having a B1 Evidential system, meaning there are three evidential ...
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Languages with evidentiality as a language of science
Not so sure about evidentiality, but I think we can draw a parallel with English articles. As we all know, English has indefinite & definite articles. And a lot of math is done in English. As a ...
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Languages with evidentiality as a language of science
I don't know of any empirical studies on this, but I'd be willing to be it would have no effect at all.
The evidentiality distinctions languages make are things like this:
X, and I have direct ...
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How do we characterize the thematic relations between verbs and subordinate phrases (clauses?) in languages without explicit case marking (eg English)
"Case" refers specifically to morphological systems, so it would be very confusing to use that term for languages which don't have such a system.
Thematic relations/roles are the semantic ...
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