Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The contribution of Tibetan languages to the study of evidentiality -- Typology and history -- 2 Evidentiality of the Tibetan verb snang -- 3 Egophoric evidentiality in Bodish languages -- 4 A typological sketch of evidential/epistemic categories in the Tibetic languages -- 5 Perfect experiential constructions: the inferential semantics of direct evidence -- 6 On the origin of the Lhasa Tibetan evidentials song and byung -- Lhasa and Diasporic Tibetan -- 7 Lhasa Tibetan predicates -- 8 Inference and deferred evidence in Tibetan -- Other Tibetan languages -- 9 Evidentiality in Purik Tibetan -- 10 Copulas in Denjongke or Sikkimese Bhutia -- 11 An overview of some epistemic categories in Dzongkha -- 12 Observations on factors affecting the distributional properties of evidential markers in Amdo Tibetan -- 13 The evidential system of Zhollam Tibetan -- 14 Evidentials in Pingwu Baima -- Index