Revision as of 14:06, 18 April 2023

Our corpus can be found in the repo at https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-ami-corpus

Developed Resources

Keyboard Tools

• The Amis Keyboard Layout Wiki Page: Amis/Keyboard
• The Amis Keyboard Github Repository: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-ami-keyboard

Transducer

• The Amis Transducer Wiki Page: Amis/Transducer
• The Amis Transducer Repo: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-ami

Disambiguation

• The Morphological Disambiguator: Amis/Disambiguation

Lexical Transfer

• Resources for machine translation between Amis_and_English

Lexical Selection

• Resources for Amis_and_English Lexical_Selection between Amis and English

External Resources

computational resources

(spell checkers, orthography converters, speech recognition software, keyboard layouts, machine translators)

dictionaries/phrasebooks/glossaries

(multilingual and monolingual, online and paper)

• Short (604 entries) word list. From the bottom of the page: ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary edited by Blust, Robert & Trussel, Stephen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. We can share and adapt the material for any purpose as long as appropriate credit is included. https://acd.clld.org/languages/227
• A very limited (one page) word list from a 1962 Linguistics conference. Citation: Torjesen, Ed (1962) "Amis (Taiwan) word list," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 6, Article 7. https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol6/iss1/7/
• A collection of raw text files with word lists and translations in English and Mandarin. Directly from the README regarding the Creative Commons Noncommercial license: 蔡中涵委員 g0v 阿美語萌典計劃使用本字典，以 CC BY-NC 授權宣告 https://github.com/miaoski/amis-data
• Same author as above, more word lists. https://github.com/miaoski/amis-safolu/tree/master/dict

grammatical descriptions

(theoretical and pædagogical)

• A University of Taipei webpage with vocabulary in addition to grammar lessons, stories, and audio recordings. Copyright 2020 Council of Indigenous Peoples. All Rights Reserved. http://web.klokah.tw/en/
• Jheng, Wei-Cherng Sam. 2022. The syntax of nominal modification and complex noun phrases in Siwkolan Amis, https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.21014.jhe
• Wu, Jing-lan Joy. 2006. Verb Classification, Case Marking, and Grammatical relations in Amis. (available online through SUNY Buffalo)
• Wu, J. (2003) Clausal modifiers in Amis. Concentric: Studies in English Literature and Linguistics, 29(2), 59-81.
• Bril, Isabelle. 2022. Lexical Restrictions on Grammatical Relations in Voice Constructions (Northern Amis), https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03483275
• Bril, Isabelle, and Stavros Skopeteas. 2021. The Syntax and Prosody of Focus in Northern Amis (Formosan), https://doi.org/10.1163/19589514-05201004
• Bril, Isabelle. 2017. Roots and Stems in Amis and Nêlêmwa (Austronesian): Lexical Categories and Functional Flexibility, https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.2.04bri
• Bril, Isabelle. 2016. Information Structure in Northern Amis: A Morphosyntactic Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2016.0021
• Chen, Tingchun. 2018. Multiple Case Assignment: An Amis Case Study
• Chen, Yi-Ting. 2016. Raising out of CP in Mod-Asp Adverbial Verb Constructions in Amis, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43897635
• Chen, Yi-Ting. 2010. The Amis Left Periphery, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40983970
• Tsai, Wei-tien Dylan. 2007. Conjunctive Reduction and Its Origin: A Comparative Study of Tsou, Amis, and Squliq Atayal, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20172329
• Describing the Morphology of Amis, https://lingdy.aa-ken.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/091208-intl-symp-and-ws-ws_imanishi.pdf
• Blust, Robert. 1999. A Note on Covert Structure: Ca-Reduplication in Amis, https://doi.org/10.2307/3623398
• Li, Paul Jen-kuei. 2006. Numerals in Formosan Languages, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4499950
• Jiang, Haowen. 2016. Nominalization and Possession in Formosan Languages, https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/95553

scientific works

(papers, books, websites)

corpora

(any collection of authentic text, linguistically annotated or not, including Wikipedia in the language, news websites, Twitter feeds, etc.)

• Pdf of the bible: Genesis 1-3 https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ami_gen-1
• bible[dot]com: Psalms, Proverbs, and New Testament. Copyright: The Bible Society in Taiwan, 2019. https://www.bible.com/bible/3411/PSA.1.AMIS2019
• Sentence examples from the same 1962 conference listed above. Citation: (Unknown), Tamih and Montgomery, Robert L. (1962) "Amis text," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 6, Article 6. https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol6/iss1/6/
• Song Lyrics: https://youtu.be/Y2elu_GxaH0
• Wikipedia: https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E2%80%99ayayaw_pising_no_tyin-naw
• Textbook: https://alilin.cip.gov.tw/files/ebook/1164886915600fa11eeaa9/print.pdf