| This dissertation is attempted to make a systematical description on the word formation of Puyuma, which is one of the aboriginal languages in Taiwan belonging to Indonesian Family of the Austronesian Phylum, with 10,000 speakers who mainly live in Beinan Town, Taidong County. As any of the aboriginal languages in Taiwan, it is a polysyllabic agglutinative language with a stress at the last syllable of a word and without tones.The materials on which the research project of the dissertation is conducted are mainly drawn from the textbooks compiled by Mr. Chen Rongfu (or Tiam Barasung in Puyuma), a native Buyuma speaker who migrated from Nanwangxiang village Bainan Town to the mainland during the War of Resistance Against Japan as a soldier and later became a scholar of his native language in the Central Institute of Nationalities, the former of the Central University for Nationalities, and unfortunately passed away in 1984, and also from a un-published Buyuma-Chinese Dictionary, which is built on the base of the textbooks by Mr. Chen. The textbooks by Mr. Tiam Barasung can be listed as following: Primer of Buyuma Language, Buyuma Dialogues (two volumes), and Collection of Buyuma Folk Stories (two volumes) , Folk Stories of Minority Ethnic Groups in China, all written by hand. The materials are adequate to make it possible to do a systematic and deep research of the language.From the perspective of descriptivism combined with case theory, the dissertation makes a micro-analysis and a exhaustive description on all the derived words collected. Focus is paid bath on the relationship between the thematic roles of the root and its derived word, and on the restrictive conditions of on which root and prefix are combined with each other.The Contents of the Dissertation is as Follows: the basic model of phonetic word form in Puyuma; phonetic adjustment of the added syllables within derived words; all kinds of affixes and their semantic features; the affixing order of affixes within complex derived words and the levels of their structures, and the semantic features; the reduplication patterns of word root the semantic features they carry each, the compound of reduplications and affixes and their semantic features; and the derivability of each affix and process of derivations.Affixing and reduplication are the two main way in which morphology are carried on in Puyuma language. The affixes added to the verbal root often mould syntactical patterns or models. Therefore, if the characteristics and rules of the word formation are found, it would be helpful and easier got the knowledge of its vocabulary system and the preparation to conduct the deeper research on its syntax. The dissertation consists of 7 chapters, which are:Chapter One: Preface.Chapter two : Definitions and Terminology Concerned.Chapter Three: Adjustment of Added Syllable within Derived Word.Chapter Four: semantic Features of Simple Affixes and the Process of Derivation.Chapter Five: Compound Affixes, Semantic Features and Levels of Structurewithin Derived Words.Chapter Six: Reduplication Patterns of Roots and their Semantic FeaturesChapter Seven: Conclusion Some Findings of the dissertation:1. The basic model of phonetic word form in Puyuma is illustrated as the following format: [C + V] n +' [C +V +(C)]newly added syllables in the derivation process will be filtered and make some changes such as addition, assimilation, dissimilation etc. to adjust to this model.2. In Puyuma, only two infixes, -em- and -in-, are found, and the forms of -im-, -en-, -un-, -urn- are conditional varieties of-em-. Furthermore, -em- and -in-are complementarity distributed with the prefixes of me- and ni- relatively. The condition in which prefixes or infixes are chosen is the nature of the initial consonants of the word roots. If the initial consonants of the word roots are liquids, prefixes of me- or ni- are chosen to added to those roots while infixes of -em-(including its varieties of-en-, -im-, -un-,-um-) or -... |
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