Abstract:
The article presents a method to define the factuality status of
a proposition in the sphere of the natural languahe processing. A particular
emphasis is placed upon syntactically subordinated propisitions. The term
"factuality status" is defined by introduction of its three components, the core
component is the so-called "epistemic value". The essence of the method is the
hierarchical alignement of the predicates of the constructions in a polipredicative
sentence. An epistemic value is assigned to every predicate by a set of rules and a
dictionary.
Key words and phrases:factuality, factuality status, epistemic value, time plane, hypotaxical
constructions, predicate, proposition.