A temporal evidential in Aymara

Evidentiality has received various analyses, most of them modal or illocutionary ones. Data from Aymara give substantiation to another kind, a temporal evidential analysis. The far distant paradigm is described in the literature as marking indirect evidentiality. In this article it is analysed as introducing a learning time which follows the reference time, thereby giving rise to past, mirative and indirect evidential readings. This analysis also accounts for its uses in combination with negation or stative predicates in direct evidential contexts. The learning time does not constitute at-issue meaning, as it projects over propositional-level operators.