verbeg
Verbeg is a hypothetical grammatical category used in linguistics and language-creation communities to describe verbs that carry both evidential information and the speaker’s epistemic stance about the truth of a proposition. The term blends “verb” with a suffix-like element (eg) intended to signal evidential gauge. In discussions of verbeg, researchers describe markers that attach to a verb to indicate how the information was obtained and how certain the speaker believes it to be.
In proposed models, verbeg manifests as suffixes, prefixes, or clitics that attach to a verb stem. The
In a hypothetical language, a verbeg system might render: toka-eg1, meaning “I witnessed that X happened” (direct
Verbeg relates to evidentiality and epistemic modality and is often discussed in contrast to standard mood