Localist Case Grammar and Philippine Verbs
Author : Sherri Brainard
Publisher : Linguistic Society of Philippines
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Sherri Brainard
Publisher : Linguistic Society of Philippines
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Teresita V. Ramos
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Tagalog language
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Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229317
This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only be described properly by a basket of neither necessary nor sufficient properties thus within a framework akin to Rosch's theory of Prototype. Some GR properties are functional (reference, topicality, accessibility); others involve overt coding (word-order, case marking, verb agreement). Others yet are more abstract, involving control of grammatical processes (rule-governed behavior). Building on Keenan's pioneering work, this volume concentrates on the structural aspects of GRs within a functionalist framework. Following a theoretical introduction, the papers in the volume deal primarily with recalcitrant typological issues: The dissociation between overt coding properties of GRs and their behavior-and-control properties; GRs in serial verb constructions; GRs in ergative languages; The impact of clause union and grammaticalization on GRs.
Author : Carol J. Pebley
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 396110476X
Kagayanen is a resilient Austronesian>Greater Central Philippine>Manobo language spoken by about 30,000 individuals, mostly in Palawan province in the Philippines. This grammar is the result of nearly 40 years of research by Carol Pebley and a team of Kagayanen speakers and non-Kagayanen co-workers. The primary data source is a corpus of texts collected over a 20 year period. These texts, three of which appear in an appendix to this book, provide vivid insights into Kagayanen ways of being. The grammar is written with a general linguistics audience in mind, from a "communication first" perspective. It should prove useful to specialists in Austronesian languages, linguistic typologists, and others interested in doing research in the central Philippines. It is also hoped that this grammar will be an encouragement to Kagayanen speakers, proving that their language is wonderfully complex and deserves an equal place alongside other regional and international languages.
Author : Michael L. Forman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824878973
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780937073865
Over the last twenty years or so, most of the work on the syntax of Philippine languages has been focused on the question of whether or not these languages can be said to have grammatical subjects, and if so which argument of a basic transitive clause should be analysed as being the subject. Paul Kroeger's contribution to this debate asserts that grammatical relations such as subject and object are syntactic notions, and must be identified on the basis of syntactic properties, rather than by semantic roles or discourse functions. A large number of syntactic processes in Tagalog uniquely select the argument which bears the nominative case. On the other hand, the data which have been used in the debate to assert the ambiguity of subjecthood are best analysed in terms of semantic rather than syntactic constraints. Together these facts support an analysis that takes the nominative argument as the subject. Kroeger examines the history of the subjecthood debate and uses data from Tagalog to test the theories that have been put forth. His conclusions entail consequences for certain linguistic concepts and theories, and lead Kroeger to assert that grammatical relations are not defined in terms of surface phrase structure configurations, contrary to the assumptions of many approaches to syntax including the Government-Binding theory. Paul Kroeger is presently doing fieldwork in Austronesian languages and teaching linguistics to fieldworkers from around the world.
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language and languages
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Author : Frank Ringgold Blake
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Tagalog language
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philippines
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Language and languages
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