Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- List of abbreviations -- Part A: Introduction -- 1. General -- 2. Siraya primary sources and linguistic literature -- 3. Dialect variation -- 4. Some observations about authorship and spelling -- 5. Formosan languages: numbers of speakers and vitality -- 6. The linguistic classification of Formosan languages -- 7. Aboriginal Taiwan and Austronesian prehistory -- 8. The Dutch occupation of West Taiwan: historical setting -- 9. The Siraya people: some historical and ethnographic data -- 10. The Austronesian ethnic groups in the Taiwanese nationalist debate -- 11. A probable cause of the extinction of Siraya -- 12. Attempts at reviving Siraya -- Part B: A grammatical sketch of Siraya -- 1. A near-phonemic orthography -- 2. Siraya phonemics -- 3. Reduplication -- 4. The clause -- 5. Verbs -- 6. Quantifiers -- 7. Nouns -- Part C: Text -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Part D: Lexicon based on the Siraya Gospel of Saint Matthew and Catechism -- References -- Index (to Parts A and B)