Evidentials in the Shuri Dialect of Luchuan (Ryukyuan)

This dissertation attempts to demonstrate that Luchuan is a language which has a grammatical category of evidentiality. Luchuan is the only sister language of Japanese; however, since they are considered to have diverged as early as the beginning of the 8th century, their vocabularies and grammars h...

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Main Author: Arakaki, Tomoko
Other Authors: Heycock, Caroline ; Cann, Ronnie
Published: University of Edinburgh 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679425