Inferential Evidentiality ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/InferentialEvidentiality


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      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Evidentiality Property
                              |_ Inferential Evidentiality

Definition:

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].


Usage Notes

Examples
Language Code: arc The third example illustrates the inferential Evidential.
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čhéemul-ʔka
rain.fell-INFEVD
It rained (everything is wet)

References:
Kibrik (1998:470-1)


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