卑南语中缀和后缀的语义

Semantic Meanings of Infixes in Puyuma Language

卑南语词绝大多数为多音节派生词,缀加、重叠和缀加重叠合用是其派生的主要手段。卑南语中缀只有两个：-em-和-in-,并分别与前缀me-和ni-互补分布；名词化后缀只有一个：-an；被动后缀有六个：-an、-aw、-aj、-anaj、-u和-i。

This paper focuses on the semantic features and productivity of the infixes and suffixes in Puyuma. There exist two infixes and six suffixes in the language. The formers are -em-, and -in- which are complementarily distributed with the prefixes of me- and ni- relatively and the latter ones are -an, -aw, -aj, -anaj, -u and -i.