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Function words and their implications for building stoplists for Philippine languages, at Dagitab Digital Humanities Workshop, Zoom, Monday, November 9, 2020

This presentation provides the audience with an introduction to information retrieval and indexing, the use of stopword and stoplist, and identifying the words that should be included in a stoplist. It contextualizes these concepts to how the content words and function words in the corpora of Philippine languages fare in building stoplists for use in constructing search engines, document indices, and other functionalities related to digital humanities.

Sayang sayang sayang: Mga linggwistik na tala ukol sas pagsasaling Bahasa Indonesia—Filipino, at Saling Panitik: Ikalawang Bienvenido Lumbera Seminar-Palihan sa Pagsasalin, Quezon City, Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Tatalakayin sa presentasyong ito ang pagkakatulad at pagkakaiba ng Pilipinas at Indonesia, partikular sa kasaysayan, kultura, at wika. Sa usapin ng linggwistikong katangian, ipakikita ang pagkakatulad at pagkakaiba ng Bahasa Indonesia at Filipino sa larangan ng kayarian ng pangungusap, batayang idyomatikong pagpapahayag, verb inflection, modality, tense/aspect, object marking, classifier, pronoun, at term of address. Sisipatin sa paghahambing ng estruktura ng Filipino at Bahasa Indonesia ang implikasyon linggwistik at kultural na pagsasalin (gaya ng pagsasalin ayon sa register, paggamit ng... Read more about Sayang sayang sayang: Mga linggwistik na tala ukol sas pagsasaling Bahasa Indonesia—Filipino

Relativization in Romblomanon, at Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Thursday, August 15, 2019

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 “...

Censoring Judeo-Christian God: Examining the views on gender and sexuality in selected versions of the Filipino translation of the Bible, at Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26, Göteborgs Universitet, Gothenburg, Friday, May 3, 2019

This paper explores the various mechanisms of expressing and euphemizing linguistic constructs related to sex, sexuality, and gender in the Filipino/Tagalog translations of the Bible. Centuries of colonization in the Philippines have paved the way to the sacralization of the Judeo-Christian text, penetrating the different aspects of the life in the country, from the drafting of the Constitution up to observing everyday activities and prescribing a set of customs. For this study, focus shall be given to how the Bible has shaped the worldviews and...

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

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 structured grammatical descriptions of languages, it is also crucial to access the speakers’ culture, beliefs and worldview, which are embedded in the various terms and expressions in the...

Diyalektolohiya bilang salamin ng linggwistik na sitwasyon ng lokalidad, at Forum sa Wika at Wikain, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Manila, Friday, June 8, 2018

Ibabahagi sa presentasyong ito ang mga karanasan sa pagsasagawa ng pananaliksik ukol sa dayalektolohiya sa konteksto ng Pilipinas. Tatalakayin ang mga isyung bumabangon bago, habang, at pagkatapos ng pagsasagawa ng pananaliksik sa field. Isasaalang-alang ang iba’t ibang aspekto ng pananaliksik sa field linguistics, tungo sa tiyak na pagsasalarawan ng linggwistik na sitwasyon at pagtukoy ng bilang ng mga wikang sinasalita at ang varayti at baryasyon ng mga wikang sinasalita sa isang lokalidad.

A comparative analysis of three important works in Ilocano lexicography, at 13th Nakem International Conference 2018 and 2nd International Congress on the Ilokano Language, St. Louis University, Baguio City, Saturday, May 26, 2018

This paper presents a comparative analysis of three milestone lexicographic works in Ilocano – Carro’s (1888) Vocabulario Iloco-Español, which is translated, augmented and revised by Vanoverbergh (1956); Rubino’s (2000) Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar; and Constantino’s (1971) Ilokano Dictionary. Looking at the dictionary not only as a list of the lexical items used in a language, but as a description of how the language is actually used by its speakers, the study aims to trace the development that Ilocano has undergone through the decades by...

Pagsasalin sa Filipino: Mga hamon at tunguhin, at Salinaysay: Serye ng mga Pagsasanay sa Pagsasalin, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Thursday, May 17, 2018

Ilalahad sa presentasyong ito ang kalikasan ng wikang Filipino bilang Philippine-type language at ang implikasyon ng mga puntong ito sa pagsasalin tungo sa naturang wika. Ipakikita ang mga pangangailangan sa pagsasalin ng teknikal na sulatin at pagtanaw sa iba't ibang usaping may kinalaman estandardisasyon ng pagsasalin gaya ng hamon nito sa tagasalin, mga problema sa paglalapat ng salita at ispeling. Magbibigay rin ng ilang panukala sa pamamaraan ng pagsasalin at mga dapat isaalang-alang sa pagpili ng salitang gagamiting panumbas sa orihinal na teksto, panghihiram mula sa banyaga at iba pang... Read more about Pagsasalin sa Filipino: Mga hamon at tunguhin

The reduplicative affix C1(C2(C3))V1- in Filipino orthography: A corpus-based analysis, at Linguistic Society of the Philippines National Conference, Bataan Peninsula State University, City of Balanga, Thursday, March 1, 2018

This paper looks into how the reduplicative affix attached to borrowed terms in contemporary written Filipino is represented in the current orthography, as reflected in the corpus of published texts. The Filipino language corpus is the product of the UP Monolinggwal na Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UP MDF) project, with the aim of using the former as the basis for the compiling of the said lexicographic work. While there may be forms that can be considered as maverick, nevertheless, the result of the survey displays two distinct patterns on the...

From colonial legacy to embodied solidarity: The palo-palo of Batanes, at International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Trans-Regional Conference 2018, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Wednesday, February 21, 2018

This presentation is a preliminary discussion of the “palo palo,” a cultural performance of the Ivatan community in the Batanes group of islands in northernmost Philippines where performers strike “opponents’s” sticks to reenact a battle of two opposing camps. The first part is a descriptive narrative of the palo-palo performance. The second part is a preliminary analysis and theorization of the palo-palo’s origin by arguing that the performance could have been based on and/or inspired by the komedya, a Philippine traditional theatre form introduced by the Spaniards during colonization...

Jem R. Javier, PhD

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