module: evidentiality

Instance DirectEvidentiality


Class:

        EvidentialityFeature
 
       

Entails:

        AnyEvidentiality
 
       
 

Entailed By:

  1. VisualEvidentiality
  2. OtherThanVisualEvidentiality
 

Class Documentation:

DirectEvidential, also called sensory, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression by having direct sensory experience of some situation; this does not include hearing about it from someone else (Palmer 2001: 35-36). 

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