Paul Jen-kuei Li
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Jen-kuei Li is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230
2025 Unraveling the impact of sociocultural factors on Indigenous heritage language proficiency in Taiwan: The crucial mediating role of heritage language input Language Problems and Language Planning 49:1, pp. 48–78 | Article
Existing studies indicate the influence of specific sociocultural factors on Indigenous heritage language (HL) proficiency in Taiwan. Within the HL empirical account, the influence of external sociocultural factors on Taiwan’s Indigenous HL proficiency is suggested to be indirect. Meanwhile, the… read more
2024 Special pronominal forms in Saaroa Concentric 50:2, pp. 243–259 | Article
Saaroa has a special set of pronominal forms not found in most other Formosan languages, as first noted by Pan (2018). This study departs from his claims that these forms only function as plurals. In fact, extensive Saaroa texts collected by different linguists (Li 2023) at different periods of… read more
2021 Adverbs in the Austronesian languages of Taiwan Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1, pp. 80–109 | Article
This is a study of adverbs in nine typologically divergent Austronesian languages of Taiwan, Atayal, Bunun, Favorlang, Kavalan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Thao, and Tsou. There are only a few adverbs in each of these languages. The form of an adverb is usually invariant and its position in a… read more
2017 Some notes on animals and plants for Proto-Austronesian speakers Language and Linguistics 18:2, pp. 254–268 | Article
Man’s life has always depended on animals and plants, a dependency most directly relevant to primitive societies. What animals and plants were available to the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) people of Taiwan 5,000 BP and earlier? What animals and plants had been domesticated at that stage? What… read more