PREFACE

This special issue consists, for the most part, of papers that were presented at the Workshop on “Nominalization in Formosan Languages”, held at the Academia Sinica on October 21-22, 2000. This workshop, organized by the Field research group of the Institute of Linguistics, was the second in a series of such meetings, which aim at stimulating scholarly discussions concerning a specific linguistic area (Tibetan languages, Formosan languages, Chinese dialects, Mongolic languages). This volume contains ten papers covering eight Formosan languages/dialects (Atayal, Seediq, Tsou, Rukai, Paiwan, Pazih, Kavalan and Yami). The first four deal with nominalization within a functional approach, the last six examine related issues within formal frameworks.