Specific unknowns: A case study of epistemic indefinites in Cantonese

This paper concerns how languages bundle an existential claim and>an ignorance inference in a nominal expression. I present case study on epistemic indefinites (EIs) Cantonese and show that EIs have different morphological makeup (m + zi WH ‘not know WH’), when compared to other more discussed EIs. suggest the component associated with mzi-WH is conventional implicature m-zi obtains adnominal usage via grammaticalization. It denotes choice function comes inherited from predicative meaning of m-zi.