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Verb Conjugation
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Mood and Evidentiality
Mood/) inflection dictates the speaker’s stance toward the proposition. While moods such as Indicative, Subjunctive, and Imperative are common, some language families exhibit mandatory Evidentiality marking within the core conjugation paradigm. Evidential markers indicate the source of the information being reported (e.g., direct experience, hearsay, inference). Failure to select the correct evidential suffix often results in a perceived cultura…