Siraya: Retrieving The Phonology, Grammar And Lexicon Of A Dormant Formosan Language

Siraya Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM Trends in Linguistics Documentation 30 Editor Volker Gast Founding Editor Werner Winter Advisory Editors Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock Heiko Narrog Matthias Schlesewsky Niina Ning Zhang Editor responsible for this volume Walter Bisang De Gruyter Mouton Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM Siraya Retrieving the Phonology, Grammar and Lexicon of a Dormant Formosan Language by Alexander Adelaar De Gruyter Mouton Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM ISBN 978-3-11-025295-8 e-ISBN 978-3-11-025296-5 ISSN 0179-8251 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adelaar, K. Alexander. Siraya : retrieving the phonology, grammar and lexicon of a dormant Formosan language / by Alexander Adelaar. p. cm. ⫺ (Trends in linguistics. documentation; 28) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-025295-8 (alk. paper) 1. Siraya language. 2. Bible. N.T. Matthew. Siraya. 3. Anthropological linguistics. I. Title. PL6162.A34 2011 4991.2⫺dc23 2011027909 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. ” 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Frank Benno Junghanns Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ⬁ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM To Ren and Niuniu Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM Brought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 5/21/12 1:39 PM Contents Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii List of abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Part A: Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Siraya primary sources and linguistic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dialect variation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Some observations about authorship and spelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Formosan languages: numbers of speakers and vitality. . . . . . . . . . . 7 The linguistic classification of Formosan languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Aboriginal Taiwan and Austronesian prehistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Dutch occupation of West Taiwan: historical setting. . . . . . . 10 The Siraya people: some historical and ethnographic data . . . . . . 12 The Austronesian ethnic groups in the Taiwanese nationalist debate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 A probable cause of the extinction of Siraya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Attempts at reviving Siraya. . . . . . . . . . . . .