Index (to Parts A and B)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables xi
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Conventions xiii
6. List of abbreviations xv
7. Part A: Introduction
8. 1. General 1
9. 2. Siraya primary sources and linguistic literature 2
10. 3. Dialect variation 4
11. 4. Some observations about authorship and spelling 6
12. 5. Formosan languages: numbers of speakers and vitality 7
13. 6. The linguistic classification of Formosan languages 8
14. 7. Aboriginal Taiwan and Austronesian prehistory 9
15. 8. The Dutch occupation of West Taiwan: historical setting 10
16. 9. The Siraya people: some historical and ethnographic data 12
17. 10. The Austronesian ethnic groups in the Taiwanese nationalist debate 13
18. 11. A probable cause of the extinction of Siraya 15
19. 12. Attempts at reviving Siraya 15
20. Part B: A grammatical sketch of Siraya
21. 1. A near-phonemic orthography 17
22. 2. Siraya phonemics 50
23. 3. Reduplication 60
24. 4. The clause 70
25. 5. Verbs 101
26. 6. Quantifiers 141
27. 7. Nouns 146
28. Part C: Text
29. Chapter 1 156
30. Chapter 2 157
31. Chapter 3 168
32. Chapter 4 176
33. Chapter 5 187
34. Chapter 6 208
35. Chapter 7 223
36. Chapter 8 235
37. Chapter 9 249
38. Chapter 10 265
39. Chapter 11 283
40. Part D: Lexicon based on the Siraya Gospel of Saint Matthew and Catechism 296
41. References 401
42. Index (to Parts A and B) 408