Amis
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Amis; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: multiple references
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 4
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.5
Summary
Amis, like some other Formosan languages, has a linker that appears to be etymologically a coordinator and is used for a wide range of functions, including linking two verbs in multi-verb constructions.
Primary references
Liu, Emma En-hsing. 2003. Conjunction and Modification in Amis. Hsinchu, Taiwan: National Tsing Hua University M.A. thesis.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan. 2007. Conjunctive Reduction and its Origin: A Comparative Study of Tsou, Amis, and Squliq Atayal. Oceanic Linguistics 46(2). 585–602. https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2008.0009
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan. 2008. 談古漢語和台灣南島語中的並列衰減現象 [On Conjunctive Reduction in Ancient Chinese and Formosan Languages]. 东方语言学 [Eastling] 3. 5–14.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan & Chun-Ming Wu. 2012. Conjunctive Reduction Revisited: Evidence from Mayrinax Atayal and Southern Paiwan. Oceanic Linguistics 51(1). 160–181. https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2012.0005