| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 台灣文化及語言研究所 === 97 === This paper aims to explore the categorial status of the so-called the LINKER/ LIGATURE tu in Isbukun Bunun and the related syntactic phenomena.
Linker is quite common in Formosan languages and even in Austronesian languages. Tu and its allomorphic variation a is generally called the linker in the literature; yet no one has ever discussed its categorial status so far.
We try to provide a unified assumption under the framework of Generative Grammar (Chomsky1981, 1995, 2001 among others) and based on cross-linguistic data that the so-called the linker tu in Bunun actually has only one main grammatical function, COMPLEMENTATION MARKER (CM), which marks the complementation between a head and its complement ([XP X tu [YPCOMPLENT]]) and is syntactically realized as Complementation marker (CM) as the DP-and IP-Complementation marker, Indefinite oblique marker (INDF) as the VP-Complementation marker, and Complementizer (COMP) as the CP-Complementation marker:
1. Tu, as CM, occurs inside DP and IP/TP, indicating the complementation between Head and Complement, i.e. DEM and NumP, NUM and NP, NEG and VoiceP/vP, ADV and VoiceP/vP.
2. Tu, as INDF, precedes NumP or indefinite non-specific nominals, indicating the complementation between Head and Complement inside VP, i.e. between a lexical verb and its Theme argument.
3. Tu, as COMP, occurs with clausal complements, wh-questions or relative clauses and clause-types them via corresponding features and syntactic mechanism.
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