A NEW COGNITIVE GRAMMATICAL RESEARCH ON THE EVIDENTIAL USE OF ENGLISH PERCEPTION VERB CONSTRUCTIONS

Abstract

Human perception is closely related to physical activity and higher-level cognition. Inference and information transmission based on perception play a major role in the behavior of sensing the presence of other individuals or sensing intentions from some kind of perceptual evidence. Perceptual processes are deeply related to inference and judgment, and therefore in linguistics, they have often been discussed in relation to modality and factivity. In addition to these concepts, a relationship with evidentiality has traditionally been pointed out. Evidentiality represents the information source for a proposition that a speaker perceives as true, and is often studied in relation to (or in contrast to) cognitive modality.