الدليلية وأنواعها الرئيسية والفرعية
Abstract
Evidentiality in linguistic studies is defined as the speaker’s coding of the source of information. Evidentiality falls into two types: direct evidentiality and indirect evidentiality. Direct evidentiality refers to the speaker’s physical sensory evidence of the situation, while indirect evidentiality entails that the speaker bases his/her evidence on inferential evidence, which is assumptive and deductive inference, or on reported evidence, i.e. hearsay and quotative source of evidence. This paper investigates the types and sub-types of evidentiality cross-linguistically.
Key Words: evidentiality, direct evidentiality, indirect evidentiality, Palmer's classification.
- Introduction
Evidentiality is a linguistic category which refers to the way by which the speaker encodes information. It is also a cross-linguistic category abundant in most world languages. There are two types of evidentiality: direct and indirect. Direct evidentiality relates to the physical sensory evidence the speaker has acquired directly through his/her senses, such as visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and olfactory evidence, while indirect non-sensory evidentiality is associated with the types of inference the speaker
