Evidentiality in Modern Standard Arabic

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. The former refers to the speaker’s physical sensory evidence of the situation where the speaker bases his/her evidence on visual and non-visual senses while the latter entails that the speaker bases his/her evidence on inferential or reported evidence. Evidentiality in Modern Standard Arabic has not been investigated in depth in previous studies although it has mechanisms for encoding it via a variety of ways. Through a detailed morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis it was concluded that Modern Standard Arabic is a language that encodes evidentiality in its types and sub-types via a variety of ways.