Presentations

The treatment of selected function words in monolingual Filipino dictionaries, at 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2023), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, June 24, 2023

Monolingual dictionaries are usually forgiven for not providing more grammatical information because their main target users are native speakers or highly-advanced learners, who likely do not have much need to look up the meaning and usage of, say, high-frequency function words. Dictionaries, however, also serve as encyclopaedias of linguistic information which reflect what we know and understand of the language (Hoekstra, 2010). The objective of this paper is to investigate the treatment of selected function words in...

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-Ki- Notes: The comitative function of the Tagalog Affix maki- and its other features, at 29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29), Wednesday, May 29, 2019

29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract
The Tagalog affix maki- has been labelled as a social affix (Lopez, 1940), a comitative affix (De Guzman, 1978; Liao 2011), and as a social participative affix (Ramos & Cena, 1990). It often gets relegated to a small section in descriptions of Tagalog grammar, with only a couple of sample...

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Documenting language as a repository of culture: A survey of ethnolinguistic and linguistic ethnographic studies from the UP Department of Linguistics, at 2019 Linguistics Society of the Philippines International Conference, Thursday, March 7, 2019

2019 Linguistics Society of the Philippines International Conference, De La Salle University, Manila

Co-presented with Jem R. Javier

Abstract
We document languages in order to record the inter-related structural units and linguistic processes that make up linguistic systems, which may be analyzed and codified both for theoretical and practical applications. Grammatical descriptions of languages often shed light on the phonological, morphological and syntactic systems of languages being described. However, while it is important to provide...

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A Critical Survey of Tagalog Tense-Aspect-Mode System, at 2018 Linguistics Society of the Philippines National Conference, Thursday, March 1, 2018

2018 Linguistics Society of the Philippines National Conference
Crowne Royal Hotel, Bataan

Co-presented with Ria P. Rafael