@article{550472,
  address    = {Amsterdam/Philadephia},
  author     = {Yongxian Luo},
  journal    = {Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area},
  number     = {1},
  pages      = {3-25},
  publisher  = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title      = {Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Zhuang},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.38.1.01luo},
  volume     = {38},
  year       = {2015},
  abstract   = {This paper discusses evidentiality and epistemic modality in Zhuang, a Tai language spoken in South China’s Guangxi Province and surrounding regions. A set of verbs of SPEAKING are found in Zhuang that describe the sources of information. These typically involve the grammaticalised marker nau⁴ which derives from a lexical verb meaning ‘say’, forming a rich array of expressions to mark direct and indirect speech, hearsay and other types of reported information, which carry a wide variety of evidential and epistemic overtones such as surprise, self-correction, mirativity, uncertainty, among others. A number of sentence-final particles, along with hedges and sensory verbs, are also found with these functions. Each of these conveys different degrees of reliability of the source of information.},
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  besttxt    = {ptxt2\eurasia\luo_zhuang2015.txt},
  cfn        = {eurasia\luo_zhuang2015.pdf},
  delivered  = {eurasia\luo_zhuang2015.pdf},
  doi        = {10.1075/ltba.38.1.01luo},
  fn         = {eurasia\luo_zhuang2015.pdf, eurasia\luo_zhuang2015_o.pdf},
  hhtype     = {specific_feature},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {0731-3500},
  keywords   = {evidentiality, Zhuang, Tai-Kadai, epistemic modality, reported speech, grammaticalisation},
  lgcode     = {Fengshan = Zhuang-Guibian [zgn]},
  macro_area = {Eurasia},
  src        = {benjamins, hh}
}