evidentialityn
Evidentialityn is a proposed linguistic category that encodes the source and reliability of information in a clause. The term fuses evidentiality with the suffix -n and is used in theoretical discussions or in constructed languages to illustrate how speakers signal how they know what they report.
It can be realized as a grammatical marker attached to verbs, nouns, or sentence-final particles, and it
Cross-linguistic work on evidentiality notes that real languages vary in how information source is coded; some
Example: In a hypothetical language with evidentialityn, the verb may carry the marker -evidentialityn to indicate
See also: evidentiality, quotative, epistemic modality, language typology.