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→Evidentiality: More evidentials.
(→Morphology: Commas, more details on nominalisation (determiners), some wording/clarification/correction (agency)) |
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{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Experiential | ! Experiential | ||
| {{ash|ebadsa e}}<br />"(evidently) they're weaving" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| {{ash| | ! Inferential | ||
| {{ash| | | {{ash|obadsa me}}<br />"(I have a feeling) they were weaving" | ||
|- | |||
! Narrative | |||
| {{ash|obadsa ga}}<br />"(it goes that) they were weaving" | |||
|- | |||
! Direct report | |||
| {{ash|obadsa hga}}<br />"(they told me) they were weaving" | |||
|- | |||
! Indirect report | |||
| {{ash|obadsa wwa}}<br />"(they were told) someone was weaving" | |||
|} | |} | ||
Note how most of these take the distal prefix {{ash|o-}} as the speaker cannot be currently present to confirm their veracity. The inferential falls somewhere between modality and evidentiality and makes sense with any deixis depending on the situation and the verb. | |||
==Locative verbs== | ==Locative verbs== | ||