Sensory evidential mood (abbreviated SENS) is one of two kinds of evidential modality.[1] As opposed to reported evidential mood, sensory evidential mood relates the speakers utterances to what the speaker has experienced through their own senses.[2] It is most commonly used to convey what has been heard or seen, but some languages have been reported to include markers for smell.[3]

The Pomo 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:

čhéemul-nme

rain fell-AUD

čhéemul-nme

{rain fell}-AUD

"It rained (I heard it)."

Here the suffix "-nme" indicates that the speaker heard the rain falling.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Palmer, F. R. (Frank Robert) (1986). Mood and modality. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26516-9. OCLC 13456233.
  2. ^ Hoye, Leo Francis (2005-08-01). ""You may think that; I couldn't possibly comment!" Modality studies: Contemporary research and future directions. Part I". Journal of Pragmatics. Focus-on Issue: Marking Discourse. 37 (8): 1295–1321. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2005.01.004. ISSN 0378-2166.
  3. ^ "The Cultural, Ecological, and Sociolinguistic Context of the Language", A Grammar of Southern Pomo, UNP - Nebraska, pp. 1–24, 2020-02-15, doi:10.2307/j.ctvwcjgqd.7, ISBN 978-1-4962-1891-9, S2CID 243594822, retrieved 2020-12-02


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