Bulgarian Evidentiality

[dH13b] [Aik04]

Two-choice direct vs indirect via the aorist (direct) vs l-form (indirect) contrast, fused with TAM. The best-known European language with grammatical evidentials. Balkan Sprachbund. WALS and Aikhenvald agree.

Sister to Fragments/Slavic/Bulgarian/Evidentials.lean which holds the [Cum26] tense-evidential paradigm data.

Typed evidential inventory

Bulgarian's 2-way contrast via aorist (direct) vs l-form (indirect), fused with TAM. The l-form covers both inferential and reportative meanings — represented here as the inferential kind (the dominant inference function); reportative extensions are an Aikhenvald-style semantic extension.

def Bulgarian.Evidentiality.evidentials : List Semantics.Evidential.Entry

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