This study sets out to investigate the syntactic behavior of the SAY verbs across Formosan languages. SAY verbs in Formosan languages display intriguingly unusual syntactic behaviors, e.g., SAY verbs in most Formosan languages can occur only in the post-dictum position, viz., “dictum” + SAY verb, while SAY verbs in some languages can occur in both pre- and post-dictum positions, forming the intriguing circumquotative constructions.
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