Linking constructions in Mayrinax Atayal

Lingua Sinica

Table 1 Verb/predicate types and the selection of linkers in Mayrinax Atayal (I)

Linkers		gi’	ru’	na’	mha’	ga’	ki’ _F ki’ _NF	’i’ _F1 ’i’ _F2 ’i’ _NF	cu’ _F cu’ _NF
Verb/predicate types		gi’	ru’	na’	mha’	ga’	ki’ _F ki’ _NF	’i’ _F1 ’i’ _F2 ’i’ _NF	cu’ _F cu’ _NF
High-order evaluative	balaiq “good/fortunate”	✓
High-order evaluative	nahriq “pitiful”’							✓’i’ _F1
Cognition verb	snuawun “to believe”								✓ cu’ _F
	lumanglung “to think”		✓		✓
	baqun “to know”		✓						✓ cu’ _F
	’ua’ “to hope”			✓
	ma’icug “to be afraid”							✓’i’ _F2
Utterance verb	kumaal “to say”				✓
Evidential	asi _evid					✓
Epistemic	ki’i							✓’i’ _F2
Epistemic	asi _epis						✓ ki’ _F
Deontic	asi _deon						✓ ki’ _NF
Middle/tough predicate								✓’i’ _NF
Subject control verb								✓’i’ _NF
Object control verb								✓’i’ _NF
Adverbial verb (manner/frequency)								✓’i’ _NF
Action verb in resultative construction									✓ cu’ _NF