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.com50. Paiwan
(11,500 words)
Paiwan, spoken in Pingtung and Taitung Counties, is one of the best-studied Austronesian languages in Taiwan. This chapter provides a basic description of its phonology, morphology, and (morpho)syntax, based on data from the Kuljaljau dialect. This dialect was taken as representative because it has been abundantly and faithfully recorded, with natural speech data representing an ideal corpus for grammatical analysis. 50.1 IntroductionPaiwan has a population of about 100,000 as of December 2019 (Council of Indigenous Peoples 2020). The Paiwan people tradit…
51. Pazeh and Kaxabu
(10,174 words)
Pazeh and Kaxabu are two moribund dialects spoken in Puli, Central Taiwan, which differ slightly in their phonology and lexicon. This chapter offers a contrastive study of these two dialects by providing an overview of their phonology and orthography, morphology, and syntax. Compared to Pazeh, Kaxabu exhibits interesting morphosyntactic changes that are due to language contact and language obsolescence, such as deaffixation, loss of grammatical affixes and replacement by lexical and syntactic me…