2 ] 2 The Japanese language possesses another group of adjectival words, which are called "adjectival nouns" (Martin 1975) or "nominal adjectives" (Kuno 1973 he-TOP glad it.appears.that 'It appears that he is glad.'
the internal state of a person at the speech time, first person or third person, can be expressed as the resulting state of that thought process using the resultative aspect marker te-iru.