A diachronic typology of evidential contrasts (from a Himalayan perspective)
While work on evidentiality traditionally (e.g. Aikhenvald 2004, 2018) ignores agentive markers, an adequate account of the evidential contrasts found in Tibetan and neighboring languages needs to include them. In fact, most of the evidential contrasts we find in this region involve one verb form which mainly occurs when the speaker/addressee is the subject in a statement/question (‘egophoric’) and another mainly when s/he isn’t (‘allophoric’). (More...)