Person-sensitivity and egophoricity in Jejuan: the -no/-ko suffixes.

The past years have seen a growing interest in grammatical phenomena which encode “personal knowledge” (Floyd et al. 2018: 2) and similar epistemic categories, now more widely referred to under the term egophoricity (Floyd et al. 2018). Authors have observed that languages with egophoric marking often use the same marker for first-person declarative and second-person interrogative contexts, linking this to principles of epistemic access: I can only know things within my own experience and ask the addressee about theirs. As a result, egophoric morphology may be misinterpreted as some sort of person-marking even if it occurs in languages which otherwise have no grammaticalized person agreement. This paper, alongside Jeong’s (2020) very recent publication, aims at showing that, in fact, this is the case in Koreanic languages.