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# Li (2014) Conjunction in Thao

This corpus comprises all 27 Thao example sentences from Paul Jen-Kuei Li's paper *Conjunction in Thao* (2014), a study of coordination and subordination in Thao — a Formosan language spoken at Sun-Moon Lake in central Taiwan. The 24 numbered examples carry word- and morpheme-level interlinear glossing aligned to the paper's analysis; three further Thao sentences quoted in footnote 7 are included as sentence-only. Each sentence provides Li's source transcription (the `original` tier) alongside a rendering in FormosanBank's common Thao orthography (the `standard` tier), with English translations.

A note on segmentation notation: Li's interlinear markers (`-` and `=` for morpheme/clitic boundaries, `<...>` for infixes) are preserved in the `original` tier and in the word/morpheme tiers, where they carry the morphological analysis. The **sentence-level** `standard` tier is flattened running text with no markers — in this source the hyphen is always a morpheme boundary, never a letter (Li writes the Thao glottal stop as `ʔ`).

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## Corpus Statistics

|                           | Thao |
| ------------------------- | ---- |
| Word count                | 227  |
| Total audio               | 0    |
| Transcribed               | 0    |
| Untranscribed             | 0    |
| Translated words          |      |
| English                   | 227  |
| Mandarin                  | 0    |
| Japanese                  | 0    |
| Dutch                     | 0    |
| Morphologically segmented | 211  |
| Glossed words             | 211  |

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## **Access Details**

* The repo containing this corpus in FormosanBank as well as the code to reconstruct the corpus can be found [here](https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank/tree/main/Corpora/Li-Conjunction-Thao).
* The corpus is fully regenerable from the committed reviewed source records: `CodeAndDocs/scripts/reproduce.sh` rebuilds the XML (build → source-fidelity audit → orthography standardization → sentence-level segmentation flattening → phonology) and verifies its own output. See the corpus [README](https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank/blob/main/Corpora/Li-Conjunction-Thao/README.md) for details, including the two source-transcription typos corrected in code against Blust's *Thao Dictionary*.

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## **Copyright**

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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## Citation

In accordance with our [Terms of Use](/formosanbank/additional-resources/terms-of-use.md), if you use this corpus or any product derived from this corpus in any publication, you must cite both FormosanBank and:

Li, P. J.-K. (2014). Conjunction in Thao. In I Wayan Arka & N. L. K. Mas Indrawati (Eds.), *Papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 2: Argument realisations and related constructions in Austronesian languages* (pp. 401–409). Asia-Pacific Linguistics.