Linguistic mechanisms of evidentiality in modern standard Arabic

الملخص EN

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 subtypes 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 variety of ways such as verbs, adverbs or adverbial / linguistic expressions that encode the meaning of evidentiality.

the findings of the study have showed that evidentiality in modern standard Arabic exists as a separate category and it is distinct from epistemic modality although they sometimes overlap to encode evidential meaning in some contexts.