LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 12.1:49-75, 2011 2011-0-012-001-000300-1 Comitative and Coordinate Constructions in Truku Seediq * Amy Pei-jung Lee National Dong Hwa University This paper focuses on the comitativity-related constructions and coordination in the Truku dialect of Seediq, a Formosan language belonging to the Atayalic group. Regarding comitativity and coordination, three morphemes are found to be structurally involved: deha as the comitative preposition, ka as the comitative case marker, and ni as the conjunctive coordinator. deha in comitativity-related constructions belongs to different grammatical categories. The deha in inclusory constructions is analyzed as the numeral ‘two’. deha is in complementary distribution with the comitative case marker ka and their occurrence depends on the pronominal status of the subject. This paper also presents both conjunctive and disjunctive coordination. The syntactic distribution of the preposition deha and the coordinator ni is also compared. The coordinator ni is used as monosyndeton and polysyndeton. Typologically speaking, coordination in Truku Seediq shows that the position of the coordinator ni in relation to the other coordinands is the type of [A co][B], based on the criterion of intonational phrasing. Following Stassen’s (2000) typological study on noun phrase conjunction, this paper concludes that Truku Seediq is an AND-language. Key words: Truku Seediq, comitativity, coordination, inclusory constructions, coordinate constructions, AND-languages 1. Introduction This paper deals with the constructions which encode comitativity and coordination in Truku Seediq, a dialect of the Seediq language spoken mainly in the eastern part of Taiwan. Seediq is a Formosan language belonging to the Atayalic group (Li 1981), * The first version of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Coordination and Comitativity in Austronesian Languages held on 7-8 November, 2009, at Academia Sinica (Taiwan). This paper is part of the research project (NSC 97-2410-H-259-075) funded by the National Science Council, Taiwan. I would like to thank Arthur Holmer and Paul Jen-kuei Li for their detailed comments on the first version. Thanks also go to the audience in the workshop for their discussion and comments, especially Lawrence A. Reid, C.-C. Jane Tang, Henry Y. Chang, and Stacy F. Teng. The comments from the three anonymous reviewers are also deeply appreciated. Any remaining errors are my responsibilities.