Some morphosyntactic differences between Formosan and Philippine languages

This paper explores morphosyntactic differences between Formosan and Philippine languages. Four of the less widely recognized morphosyntactic features are included in the discussion, including: (a) Ca-reduplication; (b) ^* mu- 'motion' (Blust 2003b); (c) ^* maka- and/or ^* paka-: 'potentive' vs. 'abilitative'; (d) the "recent perfective" construction. On the distributional differences of these features, I discuss whether it is necessary to reconstruct certain forms at the PAn level and/or whether some of the formerly proposed reconstructions should be revised.