module: evidentiality

Instance IndirectEvidentiality


Class:

        EvidentialityFeature
 
       

Entails:

        AnyEvidentiality
 
       
 

Entailed By:

  1. OtherSourceEvidentiality
  2. InferentialEvidentiality
 

Class Documentation:

IndirectEvidentiality, also called reported, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression from a source other than by experiencing the situation directly (Palmer 2001: 40). 

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