賽考利克泰雅語前綴 p- 之語法及語意研究

Syntax and Semantics of p- in Squliq Atayal

泰雅語是台灣南島語的一支，本篇論文主要探討該語言之賽考利克方言中同音詞綴 p- 的語法及語意特質。文中發現前綴 p- 有時為動詞化詞綴、使役詞綴、相互詞綴、未實現貌詞綴、或表主事者之名物化詞綴。這些歧異功能可藉由詞綴 p- 出現在不同語法結構中而區別之。本篇論文亦針對這些詞綴p- 同時出現時之限制加以探討。

In Atayal (an Austronesian language of Taiwan), a prefixed p- can have five distinct functions: verbalizer, causativizer, reciprocal marker, irrealis marker, and agentive nominalizer. Homophonous words prefixed with p- seem confusingly ambiguous, yet they can be differentiated in context by examining syntactic distribution, co-occurring nominal argument, and case marking. The paper further examines co-occurrence patterns and constraints of p-prefixation.