Reported Evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman Languages

Classifications of evidentiality all include at least one ‘reported’, ‘quotative’ or ‘hearsay’ category. This category is found in many language groups that are attested to have evidentiality, including the Tibeto-Burman family. Although attested, reported often under-described both descriptive grammars specific languages, and typologies across survey family mention descriptions 88 130 languages. While there clear patterns with regards morphosyntactic features these a great deal variation semantic features, number evidential distinctions specificity source. demonstrates complex varied even within same family, outlines ways improve future documentation description.