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PDF pending restorationGeoghegan, William H. – 1969
This paper discusses the type of marking rule normally used in the production and interpretation of message forms for which semantic marking is possible. The structure and use of such rules is illustrated through a recent study of the semantics of personal address among the Balangingi' Samal, a Muslim group of the southern Philippines. The rule…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Context Clues, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
Download full textMARQUEZ, ELY J. – 1967
THIS WORKBOOK WAS WRITTEN TO ENABLE PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES TO ANALYZE AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN THEIR REGION. IT WAS ASSUMED THAT THE VOLUNTEER WOULD HAVE SOME TRAINING IN TAGALOG BUT NOT NECESSARILY A KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTIC TERMS OR METHODS. THE AUTHOR ALSO ASSUMES THAT THE VOLUNTEER WILL WORK WITH A NATIVE…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Autoinstructional Aids, Descriptive Linguistics, Field Studies
Peer reviewedLipski, John M. – Language in Society, 1987
Explores the status of the Zamboangueno dialect, discusses the various stages of decreolization in the direction of Spanish, and suggests possible avenues for the continued introduction of elements from an acrolect which, for all intents and purposes, is no longer generally available to residents of Zamboanga, Philippines. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries
Gonzalez, Andrew; Alberca, Wilfredo – 1978
A frequency count was conducted of linguistic features in the English of the Philippine mass media. Philippine English was found to have a smaller inventory of phonological units than Received Standard English. Vowel reduction does not seem to be prevalent. The collapsing of phonological distinctions is most evident in vowels and fricatives.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Variation
Gieser, C. Richard, Comp. – 1987
A collection of 23 brief texts in Guinaang Kalinga (called Guininaang by native speakers), gathered in the Guinaang region of the Philippines, are presented with ethnographic and linguistic notes and translations. The texts address topics of common cultural patterns, history, and storytelling. An introductory section describes the sources and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Forster, Jannette, Comp.; Barnard, Myra Lou, Comp. – 1987
Eleven texts in Diababawon are presented. Diababawon is a Manobo language of the Indonesian branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family and spoken primarily in the province of Davao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines. An introductory section describes some aspects of the language's phonology. The texts, which include stories and descriptions of common…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
PDF pending restorationEdrial-Luzares, Casilda, Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1977
This volume is devoted to papers on an empirical or theoretical nature contributing to the study of language and communicative behavior in the Philippines. Articles included are: (1) "The Phonemic Consequences of Two Morphophonemic Rules in Molbog," by H. Arnold Thiessen; (2) "A Look at a Northern Kankanay Text (a syntactic…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Case (Grammar), Cebuano, Deep Structure
