摘要
The Austronesian languages in Taiwan occupy an important position in the study of Proto-Austronesian. Ogawa and Asai (1935) and Isidore Dyen (1965) set up some new phonemes for Proto-Austronesian based on Formosan evidence Otto C. DahI (1973) quotes many forms of the Formosan languages in establishing his Proto-Austronesian system. But he also complains that the notation in both the books of Ogawa and Asai (1935) and of Raleigh Ferrell (1969) is non-phonemic. Recently, Shigeru Tsuchida (1976) published his dissertation on Proto-Tsouic phonology and gave a full review to the Proto-Austronesian phonemes. Most of his materials were collected during his two-year fieldwork in Taiwan. Except for Tsuchida, all the other Austronesian scholars directly quote Formosan languages, instead of reconstructed forms, as evidence in discussing Proto-Austronesian phonemes. It seems that some problems might be solved at a lower level such as Proto-Rukai, Proto-Puyuma, etc. It is more reliable, if we reconstruct Proto Austronesian on the ground of low-level proto-systems of individual languages. This paper, therefore, deals with Proto-Puyuma phonology and the internal relationships of six Puyuma dialects. It includes the following sections:
Section one (pp. 321-323) contains a brief introduction to the study of Formosan languages. Here the importance of Formosan languages is stressed and the main purposes for the linguistic study of these languages discussed.
Section two (pp. 323-325) contains a review of the previous publications on Puyuma and a list of the locations and the informants of the Puyuma dialects.
Section three (pp. 325-330) contains a sketch of Puyuma phonology, including the phonemic systems, phonetic description, and distinctive features.
Section four (pp. 330-335) gives the sound correspondences of the six dialects and the reconsturction of Proto-Puyuma phonemes.
Section five (pp. 335-341) is a conclusion of this paper, consisting of the developments from Proto-Puyuma to madern dialects and from Proto-Austronesian to Proto-Puyuma and the relationships among Puyuma dialects.
Section six (pp. 341-388) is an appendix, which contains a list of about 700 cognate words and the reconstructed forms.