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.

• 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 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, 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.