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The present paper deals with existential, possessive, and locative constructions in IO Formosan languages: Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Seediq, and Tsou. Our aim is twofold: to provide an overview of these constructions in each language, while also trying to determine whether the syntactic and semantic interrelationships and variation postulated in earlier studies hold true in these languages. This is achieved by examining (i) the structural variation found among the languages, (ii) the morphological properties and the syntactic behavior of the existential/locative verb, (iii) the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the arguments appearing in these three constructions, and (iv) word order. |
