odredene

Odredene is a hypothetical grammatical category used in speculative linguistics to describe a determiner that encodes both definiteness and the speaker's evidential stance. The term is a neologism created for theoretical discussion and is not attested in any natural language. In this model, odredene marks three dimensions: definiteness (definite vs indefinite), evidentiality (the source and reliability of information), and epistemic stance (assurance vs hedging). The combined marking can appear as a single morpheme or as a determiner phrase that attaches to the head noun.

Usage is purely hypothetical; common practice would be to attach odredene to a noun to yield phrases such as "odredene book" meaning "a specific book that I witnessed directly." The semantics require discourse context to disambiguate when both definiteness and evidentiality are implicated. Phonological realization would depend on the language; odredene could be realized as a separate determiner, a clitic, or as part of a fused determiner.

In typology, odredene illustrates how multiple grammatical categories can intersect within determiners, blending features discussed in the study of definiteness, specificity, and evidentiality. It is often cited in theoretical discussions as a caution against assuming a one-to-one mapping between form and function in determiner systems.