Abstract
The purpose of this paper aims at the comparison and contrast of phase marker 了liau2, as well as 好ho2, 完uan5, 去khi3, and煞suah between Goen and stories for Taiwanese Southern Min. This study aims to provide a preliminary analysis on the phase marker and aspect marker in TSM. The research will be undergone on the basis of lexical, semantic, syntactic, and phonological aspect respectively. The study attempts to undergo the research and offer answers to following issues. First issue is concerned whether the construction of phase markers and predicates is with limits. Second issue is dealt with whether the collocation of different phase markers is complementarily distributed. Third issue is coped with both linear and hierarchical order of phase and aspect markers with predicates.