Taroko Atayalic Formosan Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics

Taroko is an Atayalic Formosan member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 28,000 speakers in the Puli and south Hualien regions of Formosa (Taiwan). Alternate names include Taruku, Toroko, Truku, Toda, Sediq, Saediq, Seedik, Sejiq, Sedeq, Seedek, Seedeq, Shedekka, Sedek, Sediakk, Sedik, Sazek, Bu-hwan, Che-hwan, Daiyat-ataiyal, Hogo, Iboho and Paran.

• - Paper exploring the correlation between the presence of extensive indefinite wh-construals and the abscence of island effects in single wh-questions in Tsou and Seediq.
  
• - Paper exploring whether the mainstream Minimalist Program model can describe the Austronesian language Seediq into a right-branching tree structure.
  
• - Paper examining the relative clause structure in Tagalog and Seediq, written by Edith Aldridge.
  
• - General and typological facts about the Seediq language.
  
• - Analysis of passive formation in Seediq and other Austronesian languages which treats passivisation as primarily a diathetic change that in some languages details a valency reduction.
  
  

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