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<p>This paper argues that tense is used to mark evidential source in English. Specifically, nonfuture tenses mark the speaker’s evidence as causally downstream from the event being described. This amounts to a <i>linguistic</i> solution to a puzzle recently posed by Dilip Ninan (“Assertion, evidence and the future,” <i>The Philosophical Review,</i> 2022). The analysis is principally supported by parallel phenomena in evidential systems of Bulgarian and Korean.</p>

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Tense and evidence

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    2026年2月3日

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  • Samuel Cumming

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This paper argues that tense is used to mark evidential source in English. Specifically, nonfuture tenses mark the speaker’s evidence as causally downstream from the event being described. This amounts to a linguistic solution to a puzzle recently posed by Dilip Ninan (“Assertion, evidence and the future,” The Philosophical Review, 2022). The analysis is principally supported by parallel phenomena in evidential systems of Bulgarian and Korean.