- The
inferential mood (abbreviated
INFER or INFR) is used to
report a
nonwitnessed event without confirming it, but the same
forms also
function as admiratives...
- The
inferential mood (abbreviated
INFER or INFR) is used to
report a
nonwitnessed event without confirming it, but the same
forms also
function as admiratives...
- most
common system found is the A3 type. Two-term systems: A1. witness,
nonwitness (e.g. Jarawara,
Yukaghir languages, Mỹky, Godoberi, Kalasha-mun, Khowar...
- when
there were no
other people, the sun and the moon were
people (
NONWITNESSED).’ : 347, 315
There are six
allomorphs of the
evidential suffix in Tuparí...
