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Tactile perception
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The unmarked verb of tactile perception can be used as an intransitive evidential copula.

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The verb of tactile perception can easily be used in an evidential construction, especially when a positively evaluating Adjective Phrase (AP) is negated:

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It fielt net goed wat se dogge
it feels not good what they do
What they are doing does not feel right

In case a verb of perception is used evidentially, the meaning of literal sensory perception is absent. As a result, the sentences in (2) receive roughly the same interpretation as the one immediately above:

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a. It heart net goed wat se dogge
it hears not good what they do
What I hear they are doing does not seem right
b. It sjocht der net goed út wat se dogge
it feels R not good out what they do
What they are doing does not look good

The evaluative structure is questioned with the AP hoe how:

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Hoe fielt it foar dy?
how feels it foar you
How does it feel for you?

The evaluator argument usually remains implicit, but it may be expressed in an Adposition Phrase (PP) introduced by the preposition neffens according to or the preposition foar for, as in example (3). There is a subtle meaning difference between these two prepositions.

The evidential derived from tactile perception can be put in the perfect tense:

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It hat net goed field wat se dogge
it has not good felt what they do
It has not felt good what they did
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