A Grammar of Mantauran Rukai

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A Grammar of Mantauran (Rukai)
Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics

• Language and Linguistics Monograph Series A4-2
• 19 X 26 cm xviii551 pages in English
• ISBN 978-986-01-1219-1 (hardback)GPN
  1009602841
• Publisher Institute of Linguistics,
  Academia Sinica
• Place Taipei
• Publication date November 30, 2007

Elizabeth Zeitoun
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Summary

• Rukai, one of the 14 still extant Formosan
  languages, consists of six dialects (Tanan,
  Labuan, Budai, Mantauran, Maga, Tona) which are
  spoken in southern Taiwan. Mantauran (Rukai)
  the dialect under investigation in this monograph
  is spoken in Kaohsiung county (Maolin
  township). It is the most endangered Rukai
  dialects, and the most aberrant in terms of its
  phonological, morphological and syntactic
  features.
• This work presents a functional and empirically
  based account of the Mantauran (Rukai) grammar
  based on a large corpus that includes folktales
  and narratives as well as vocabulary and elicited
  sentences. The grammar is traditionally arranged
  it begins with a study of Mantauran phonology
  (chapter 2), goes on investigating its morphology
  (chapters 3-8) and proceeds to the syntactic
  study of the phrase, the clause and the sentence
  (chapters 11-16). Chapters 9 and 10 represent a
  buffer between morphology and syntax.
• This grammar will hopefully be useful not only to
  the Rukai people but also to Formosanists,
  Austronesianists, typologists and linguists in
  general.