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.
References #
- [Aik04], ยง4.1
- [de-haan-2013]