Feature 78A: Coding of Evidentiality

by Ferdinand de Haan

This feature is discussed in chapter 78. Related examples are available.

Values

No grammatical evidentials (181 languages)
Verbal affix or clitic (131 languages)
Part of the tense system (24 languages)
Separate particle (65 languages)
Modal morpheme (7 languages)
Mixed (10 languages)
  total: 418