Relativization in Romblomanon

Presentation Date: 

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Location: 

Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City

The paper explores the relativization mechanisms in Romblomanon, and how these relativized sentences are embedded to another sentence to form a complex construction. The first part introduces the language and the depth of the studies made regarding Romblomanon and complex sentence formation in general. This is followed by a discussion of the noun phrase to which a relative clause will substitute in a matrix sentence. The third part thoroughly defines the basic sentence in Romblomanon. The next sections are devoted to relativization, embedding relative clauses, and discussing the “headless” relative clauses.