👉 Veridity in linguistics refers to the phenomenon where words or sentences are considered to be true based on their syntactic structure and semantic content, even if they do not logically follow a logical sequence of events. This can occur due to factors such as word order, grammatical construction, or sentence structure that are not inherent to the meaning of the words themselves. For example, in English, "I love you" is considered veridical because it is true based on its syntactic structure and semantic