Sensory evidential mood (
abbreviated
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) is one of two kinds of evidential
modality.
As opposed to reported evidential mood, sensory evidential mood relates the speakers utterances to what the speaker has experienced through their own senses. It is most commonly used to convey what has been heard or seen, but some languages have been reported to include markers for smell.
The
Pomo
The Pomo are an Indigenous people of California. Historical Pomo territory in Northern California was large, bordered by the Pacific Coast to the west, extending inland to Clear Lake, and mainly between Cleone and Duncans Point. One small ...
language uses sensory evidential mood to mark for what the speaker knows based on sound. This specific auditory marker can be shown in an example of the statement in Pomo:
Here the suffix "-nme" indicates that the speaker heard the rain falling.
References
Grammatical moods
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