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Thao Loans from Bunun

In: Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
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Paul Jen-kuei Li
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24 Jan 2013
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Thao has extensive lexical and phonological, though not morphosyntactic, borrowing from Bunun. There are hundreds of Thao loanwords from Bunun. The consonants /b, d, l, ?, h/ have acquired phonemic status in Thao due to the great number of loans from Bunun. Linguistic evidence indicates that there are different periods of borrowing. Phonological and morphological adaptation of the forms is made for some lexical items. The problem of determining from which dialect(s) borrowing occurred is discussed in some detail, and so is the problem of some irregular forms. A list of Thao loanwords from Bunun is given in the appendix.

Title:
Thao Loans from Bunun
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-90000121
Language:
English
Pages:
225–241
Keywords:
Thao; Bunun; loan; adaptation; irregular forms
In:
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
In:
Volume 7: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2405-478X
Print ISSN:
1933-6985
Subjects:
China, Asian Studies, Uralic, Altaic & East Asian Languages, Languages and Linguistics

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