Linguistic Mechanisms of Evidentiality in Modern Standard Arabic

Abstract

Evidentiality is a newly-fledged topic in linguistic studies which has gained a new terrain only recently. It refers to the speaker’s coding of the source of information. Evidentiality falls into two types: direct and indirect. This study investigates the types and sub-types of evidentiality in Standard Arabic. Through a detailed morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis, it was concluded that Modern Standard Arabic is a language which encodes evidentiality in its types and sub-types via a