Taiwanese Lexical Change and Variation
Chin-An Li (Lí Khîn-hōaⁿ)
Tainan: King-an Publishing, 2006
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Cover price: NT$520
Overview
Following the process of change in written and spoken Taiwanese, Li charts the development of the language with reference to the layers that make up Taiwanese - layers of loanwords from Dutch, Austronesian, from the church language, courtesy of Ē-mn̂g, from Japanese, Mandarin and English.
