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Linglib.Fragments.Romance.French.Evidentiality

French evidentiality #

French has no grammatical evidentials: the conditional's reportative use (the journalistic conditional) is one of the best-known evidentiality strategies, a non-evidential category with an evidential extension, so the inventory is empty. WALS, counting the conditional as a grammatical reportative, codes the language as indirect-only.

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