module: evidentiality

Instance AssumptiveEvidentiality


Class:

        EvidentialityFeature
 
       

Entails:

        InferentialEvidentiality
 
       
 

Entailed By:

 

Class Documentation:

Assumptive encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through a possibly unsound inference procedure. That is, it is at least reasonalbe (Palmer 2001: 6-8). 

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