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W O R K I N G? P A P E R S I N L I N G U I S T I C S The notes and articles in this series are progress reports on work being carried on by students and faculty in the Department. Because these papers are not finished products, readers are asked not to cite from them without noting their preliminary nature. The authors welcome any comments and suggestions that readers might offer. Volume 38(5) 2007 (August) DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT M?NOA HONOLULU 96822 An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution  DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS FACULTY 2007 Victoria B. Anderson Byron W. Bender (Emeritus) Benjamin Bergen Derek Bickerton (Emeritus) Robert A. Blust (Chair) Robert L. Cheng (Adjunct) Kenneth W. Cook (Adjunct) Kamil Deen (Co-Graduate Chair) Patricia J. Donegan Emanuel J. Drechsel (Adjunct) Michael L. Forman George W. Grace (Emeritus) John H. Haig (Adjunct) Roderick A. Jacobs (Emeritus) Paul Lassettre P. Gregory Lee Patricia A. Lee Howard P. McKaughan (Emeritus) William O’Grady Yuko Otsuka Ann Marie Peters (Emeritus, Co-Graduate Chair) Kenneth L. Rehg Lawrence A. Reid (Emeritus) Amy J. Schafer Albert J. Schütz, (Emeritus, Editor) Ho Min Sohn (Adjunct) David L. Stampe Laurence C. Thompson (Emeritus) Andrew Wong Basay Nominal Constructions( Dorinda Tsai-hsiu Liu This paper examines the distributional and syntactic facts of various kinds of nominal constituents in Basay, an extinct East Formosan language, and identifies two suspicious “nominalized” verbal elements—the verbs of the nominalized clauses and the headless relative clauses. Following Chomsky 1970, we adopt two binary category features, [±N] and [±V], and establish the morphosyntactic criteria for features [+N] and [+V] in Basay. The established criteria then help us identify the morphosyntactic properties of the derived nouns, verbs in the nominalized clauses, and verbs in the headless clauses. Our study shows that the derived nouns are lexicalized nominals with [+N, –V] values,