Kazan Tatar, like other Turkic languages, has a system of verbal suffixes which are generally considered to encode both tense and evidentiality. In this paper, I will discuss an odd collection of syntactic environments where only a subset of these suffixes are allowed. I will argue that the morphemes that can be used in these contexts encode tense but not evidentiality. In more conventional environments, these morphemes are compatible with evidential features, but the morphemes themselves do not carry evidential information.

Additionally, I will discuss the licensing of propositional content in these specific syntactic environments, in order to explain why they are allowed to lack evidential information. Following an analysis of Korean embedded nominal clauses, I propose that propositional content is only licensed in these specific embedded clauses when the embedded proposition has been mentioned previously in the local discourse. The fact that the proposition has previously established, along with evidential material, allows a repetition of the proposition without evidential information.