Perceptive inferentiality and the ways of its expression in the modern German language

The article deals with the inferential evidentiality based on the perceptive activity of the speaker.It is establishedthat logical conclusion makes it possible to reconstruct the situation on the basis of sensory perception of the indirectevidence under the conditions of temporal or spatial distance between the speaker and the situation. The ways of mark-ing perceptive inferentiality in the modern Germanlanguage are ascertained.