module: evidentiality

Instance InferentialEvidentiality


Class:

        EvidentialityFeature
 
       

Entails:

        IndirectEvidentiality
 
       
 

Entailed By:

  1. DeductiveEvidentiality
  2. AssumptiveEvidentiality
 

Class Documentation:

InferentialEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through some kind of internal inference procedure, e.g., deduction, abduction, induction (Palmer 2001: 6-8). 

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