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Is there grammatical marking of indirect evidence (hearsay, inference, etc.)?
Language or dialect:
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Feature:
Is there grammatical marking of indirect evidence (hearsay, inference, etc.)?
Coding:
absent (
Hogg 2002
)
Comment:
But there is a fun use of the subjunctive for epistemic unsurity in reported speech, see Hogg 2002:83
Contribution:
Dataset for Old English (ca. 450-1100)
by
Daniel Prestipino
and
Henry Wu
and
Rhiannon Schembri
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