Questions tagged [evidentiality]

In languages that mark evidentiality morphologically, what evidential categories tend to be used for things like creation stories, myths, statements about theology ("God is good"), etc.? It would seem that "direct experience" evidentials (visual or…

I've heard about evidentiality being a feature of Quechua languages, and I (perhaps naively) think that it may be a useful feature for whatever language is being used to convey scientific information. Has there been cases where scientific…