Re: Evidentials for a future English

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> I like the idea of evidentials.  Don't let them have one for 'I know
> from trustworthy sources, that...' :-)
>
> I have evidentials as one of the very few mandatory categories in
> Q'eng|ai.
For those who care, the 14 Lojban evidentials (none of
which are mandatory, and one of which is deliberately
nonspecific) can be found, with examples and explanations, at
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html#s11 .

Note that "I generalize"/"I particularize" form a morphologically related
pair, and "I expect"/"I experience"/"I remember" form a morphologically
related triplet (future/present/past).

Lojban doesn't have the "double hearsay" or "FOAF" evidential, though....

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