汶水泰雅語名物化結構探究

Nominalization in Mayrinax Atayal

本篇論文主要探討汶水泰雅語名物化結構的類型和功能。文中指出，如同許多南島語言一樣，汶水泰雅語的名物化結構發生在詞彙和子句兩個層面，不過汶水泰雅語除了利用焦點符號和時態語氣標記外，並沒有再利用其他詞綴機制以標示名物化結構。是故該語言中名物化形式與動詞形式極為相似。再者，本篇論文也檢視名物化結構的功能，發現除了可以標示事件或狀態外，也可以標示事件論元，如主事者、受事者、處所或工具等。希望本研究成果能提供給類型研究者和比較語言學者一些有用的資訊。

This is a preliminary, descriptive study of nominalization in Mayrinax Atayal as spoken in Chinshui Village, Taian Township, Miaoli County. Like most other Formosan or even Austronesian languages, nominalization in Mayrinax occurs at both the lexical and the clausal level. Except for focus and tense/aspect/mood markers, however, there are no productive morphological devices to produce lexical nominals; nominalized elements and verb forms are, therefore, identical. An examination of the functions of Mayrinax derived nominals shows that they may designate actions or states, and may also manifest the agent, patient, locative, or instrumental argument of an event. These findings should prove useful to future typological or comparative research.