(23) yinwei yidan huan ganbing, baiyanqiu Because-once-have-liver:disease, whites de bufen jiu hui chuxian huangdan Part-area-then-Mod-appear-jaundice 'Because once (you) get liver disease, the whites of the eyes will become yellow.'
in Mandarin Chinese, when expressing a causal conjunction with a causal connective yinwei, hui cannot have an epistemic meaning that expresses the speaker's epistemic assumption but still encodes a linkage between propositions in which q is contingent on p as in (13): (13) yinwei you ai， cai hui qidai because-exist-love, only:then-Mod-expect 'We expect because there is love.'