Typological studies on universals and variations of Formosan languages

在这份台湾南岛语族原住民语言的类型学研究中，我研究了这些语言的形态句法变异，以及相关语言如菲律宾语和印度尼西亚语的形态句法变异。特别是，我重点研究了它们的语音系统和作格性，并观察到具有丰富的“菲律宾式”语音系统和强烈作格倾向的语言与那些语音和宾格特征有限的语言之间存在明显的对比。尽管有明显的对比，然而，我表明，这是可能的，给一个统一的帐户的变化方面的声音损耗。

In this typological studies of Formosan languages, spoken by aboriginal peoples of Taiwan which belong to Austronesian family, I conducted research on the morphosyntactic variations of these languages, as well as those in related languages such as Philippine languages and Indonesian languages. In particular, I focused my studies on their voice systems and ergativity, and observed that there was an apparent contrast between languages with a rich voice system called "Philippine-type" and strong ergative tendency and those with limited voice and accusative characteristics. In spite of the apparent contrast, however, I showed that it is possible to give a unified account of the variations in terms of voice attrition.