Phasal Aspect in Atayal
Atayal verbal morphology, especially that pertaining to the TMA domain, has recently seen a surge of linguists interest. However, among the categories described in different articles on the topic there is not a single word concerning the category of verbal phasal aspect. In this article we attempt to show that in Atayal the four possible values of this category are divided between two particles. The distribution and semantics of those particles are further explored, based on the analysis of corpus and questionnaire data, collected in field research.