One hundred Paiwan texts
Robert Early and John Whitehorn
The Paiwan are one of the indigenous
ethnolinguistic minority groups of Taiwan. Their language
is a member of the vast Austronesian language family, and
belongs to its northernmost and most ancient subgroup.
This volume presents a collection of one hundred texts in
the Paiwan language. The first seventy-four texts were collected
by two Japanese anthropologists, Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai,
before the Second World War, and the remaining twenty-six
were collected by one of the co-authors of this volume, Reverend
John Whitehorn, from England, when he was working with the
Presbyterian church in the Paiwan area in the early 1950s.
Chapter 1 gives some introductory background to the Paiwan
language, and to the text collection. The interlinearised
texts are given in Chapter 2, and are followed by a concordance
(Chapter 3), which gives all Paiwan morphemes with their glosses
and an exhaustive list of references to their location in
the texts.
Chapter 4 is a reversal or finder list, which gives an alphabetical
list in English of all glosses, with their Paiwan forms. An
early sketch grammar of the language by John Whitehorn is
also included as an appendix.
Published: 2003
PL 542, ISBN (Paperback): 0 85883 479 0
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Pages: viii + 545 pp
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