Siraya: Retrieving the Phonology, Grammar and Lexicon of a Dormant Formosan Language

by Alexander Adelaar and K. Alexander Adelaar

Siraya is a Formosan language once spoken around Tainan City in southwest Taiwan. This comprehensive study is based on an analysis of the language of the Siraya Gospel of St. Matthew, which was translated from the Dutch in 1661. It contains a grammar, lexicon and extensive text with interlinear glossing as well as an introduction with detailed background information. Siraya has many unique linguistic features, which are of great interest to the study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110252953
• ISBN13: 9783110252958
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary