Re: PLI: evidentials in reported speech

[Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>]

>>"dai" is not mechanically defined, but I can certainly empathised that someone
>>else is empathising something.

>Hmm.... I can see that.  So you'd use "pe'idaidai" to imply that the
>speaker empathizes that ko'a empathizes that fo'a opines.... I can see that
>could work.  I thiought you were just using "dai" in some mechanical way to
>push the perceiver of a UI from person to person.  It might get hard to
>keep track of, though.

Very true.

>Regarding du'u, I believe that does NOT quote UI's, and thus they are still
>said by the speaker.  So it looks to me like I would agree with the
>interpretations you have for 1-3 as belonging to you and kris.  In the
>first case, it's the your opinion about what's said, in the second, you are
>empathizing someone else's opining (presumably ko'a's, though it's not
>necessarily unambiguous), and in (3) you're empathizing that someone else
>(probably ko'a) is empathizing that someone else again (probably fo'a)
>opines.

Excellent.  We have concord.