Abstract
As in other Romance languages, such as French (DENDALE, 2012) and Spanish (BÖHM; HENNEMANN, 2014), Lourenço (2016) and Mella (2020) consider that, in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), the conditional, in addition to temporal and modal values, can express evidentiality. Hengeveld and Hattnher (2015) propose an evidential typology where the reportative subtype is found, encompassing evidential cas…