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Castro, Andy (康蔼德). 2011. Southern Sui: A fourth Sui dialect [水语南部土语：水语的第四个土语]. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4(2). 1-31. http://www.jseals.org/JSEALS-4-2.pdf.

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CASTRO, Andy & GU Chaowen. 2010. Phonological innovation among Hmong dialects of Wenshan. [J/OL] Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Volume 3.1:1-39. URL: http://pacling.anu.edu.au/series/SEALS-PDFs/JSEALS-3-1.pdf

Walters, Susan. Plenty of Post-Verbal Particles in the Nuosu Yi Clause.Slater, Lehonkoski, Philips eds. Papers on Particles. Payap Univeristy Working Papers in Linguistics.Chiang Mai: Payap University Linguistics Department, 2010, (6.2):26-52. http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/wp-vol6-2.php

This paper discusses how tense, aspect and mode (TAM) are marked in Sani Yi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan, China. There are two main strategies used by Sani to express TAM distinctions: 1) particles, and 2) verbal auxiliaries. These strategies are not always easy to tease apart. If the line were clear-cut, a verbal auxiliary would exhibit verb-like behavior whereas a particle would not.

SIL. Yunnan Ethnic Language Commision. ed.2004. Research on the Special Languages of Yunnan (云南特殊语言研究)，Kunming: The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.

PINSON,Thomas and Jacqueline.2000.An introduction to Kunming hua.SIL EAG.ms

The purpose of this monograph is to help students of Chinese living in Yunnan understand some of what is being said around them. Therefore, the authors would like to make available the option of photocopying this pamphlet to anyone who desires a copy. Please extend common scholarly courtesy to the authors by citing this monograph in any published work which makes use of it.

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