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====Evidentiality affixes==== | ====Evidentiality affixes==== | ||
Evidentials mark the source of the speaker's information; evidential marking is | Evidentials mark the source of the speaker's information; a ''lack'' of evidential marking signals that the verb is irrealis. Other discourse affixes also go into this slot. | ||
*''qa-'': I witnessed or otherwise directly experienced this | *''qa-'': I witnessed or otherwise directly experienced this | ||
*''pyn-'': information I obtained from hearsay or am quoting | *''pyn-'': information I obtained from hearsay or am quoting | ||