Siraya : : Retrieving the Phonology, Grammar and Lexicon of a Dormant Formosan Language / / Alexander Adelaar.

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• VerfasserIn: Adelaar, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 p.)

Siraya is a Formosan language once spoken around Tainan City in southwest Taiwan. This comprehensive study is based on an analysis of the language of the Siraya Gospel of St. Matthew, which was translated from the Dutch in 1661. It contains a grammar, lexicon and extensive text with interlinear glos...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Conventions
• List of abbreviations
• Part A: Introduction
• 1. General
• 2. Siraya primary sources and linguistic literature
• 3. Dialect variation
• 4. Some observations about authorship and spelling
• 5. Formosan languages: numbers of speakers and vitality
• 6. The linguistic classification of Formosan languages
• 7. Aboriginal Taiwan and Austronesian prehistory
• 8. The Dutch occupation of West Taiwan: historical setting
• 9. The Siraya people: some historical and ethnographic data
• 10. The Austronesian ethnic groups in the Taiwanese nationalist debate
• 11. A probable cause of the extinction of Siraya
• 12. Attempts at reviving Siraya
• Part B: A grammatical sketch of Siraya
• 1. A near-phonemic orthography
• 2. Siraya phonemics
• 3. Reduplication
• 4. The clause
• 5. Verbs
• 6. Quantifiers
• 7. Nouns
• Part C: Text
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Part D: Lexicon based on the Siraya Gospel of Saint Matthew and Catechism
• References
• Index (to Parts A and B)