Paul Jen-kuei Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Jen-kuei Li plays a role.
Journals
Articles
Special pronominal forms in Saaroa Concentric 50:2, pp. 243–259 | Article
2024 Saaroa has a special set of pronominal forms not found in most other Formosan languages, as first noted by Pan (2018). This study departs from his claims that these forms only function as plurals. In fact, extensive Saaroa texts collected by different linguists (Li 2023) at different periods of… read more
Adverbs in the Austronesian languages of Taiwan Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1, pp. 80–109 | Article
2021 This is a study of adverbs in nine typologically divergent Austronesian languages of Taiwan, Atayal, Bunun, Favorlang, Kavalan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Thao, and Tsou. There are only a few adverbs in each of these languages. The form of an adverb is usually invariant and its position in a… read more
Some notes on animals and plants for Proto-Austronesian speakers Language and Linguistics 18:2, pp. 254–268 | Article
2017 Man’s life has always depended on animals and plants, a dependency most directly relevant to primitive societies. What animals and plants were available to the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) people of Taiwan 5,000 BP and earlier? What animals and plants had been domesticated at that stage? What… read more