Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
The Handbook of Formosan Languages Online provides a systematic and comprehensive coverage of the aboriginal languages of Taiwan and of the many ways in which they have been studied. It contains reference articles as well as grammar sketches of a number of Formosan languages, including a few extinct languages, written by leading scholars in the field.
Edited by: Paul Jen-kuei Li, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Elizabeth Zeitoun, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; and Rik De Busser, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
More information: Brill.com21. Negation in Formosan Languages
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Most Formosan languages possess negative morphemes for at least three different clause types—declarative, imperative, and existential. In general, these languages honor head-initial properties by placing negators before the entire proposition. Structural differences between negatives and their affirmative counterparts are attested upon scrutiny of standard negation (i.e., negation of verbal declaratives). The devices used to mark structural asymmetry include verbal morphology, word order, and do…