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Notes on the Kapampangan Culinary Lexicon, at First International Conference on Kapampangan Cuisine and Food Tourism, Friday, March 22, 2024

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This paper is composed of some preliminary research notes on the provenance and development of selected culinary terms in Kapampangan. By culinary terms, we mean words that refer to certain ingredients as well as the technologies and techniques used in their preparation and processing (Ramos, 2019, p. 26). I argue that to better understand the history and etymology of these items from the Kapampangan culinary lexicon, we must acknowledge the connections and relations Kapampangan bears to its fellow Central Luzon languages, other neighboring language groups it has come...

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Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Rizalenyo tungkol sa Kanilang mga Wika [What the People of Rizal Have to Know about their Languages], at Ikalawang Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Kasaysayan at Pamanang Rizalenyo [Second National Conference on the History and Heritage of the People of Rizal], Monday, November 27, 2023

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Totoong ang Lalawigan ng Rizal ay bahagi ngayon ng Rehiyon IV-A (CALABARZON) na minsang tinaguriang “Timog Katagalugan”. Ngunit, lampas at higit pa sa iisang bersiyon ng Tagalog/Filipino ang kuwento ng Rizal pagdating sa yaman ng mga wika at diyalektong ginagamit dito. Bakit iba magsalita ang mga taga-Teresa, Morong, Baras, Tanay, at Cardona sa mga taga-Taytay o ‘di kaya naman sa mga taga-Antipolo, Binangonan, o San Mateo? Bakit may pagkakatulad ang ilang mga katangian ng pananalita na ito sa pananalita sa iba pang lalawigan sa rehiyon, at kahit sa mga wika sa...

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Of Golden Ships and Divine Mediators: Folklore in Small Bisayan Island Communities, at 11th Literary Studies Conference, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, October 4, 2023

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Small island communities across the Visayas regions of the Philippines are sites of convergence, engagement, and tension among people and entities of different origins and backgrounds. I attempt to determine the provenance and examine the content of folk narratives gathered through linguistic fieldwork in two such communities: (i) the Municipality of Romblon, on the island of Romblon, Province of Romblon (from 28 April-2 May, 2014) and (ii) the Municipality of Poro, on the island of Poro, in Camotes, Province of Cebu (from 8 March-30 April, 2022) and sketch out the...

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The Constantino-Cubar Dissensus and Philippine Language Description, at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, City of Iligan, Lanao del Norte, Saturday, April 29, 2023

Paper read at the 5th Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference.

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Ernesto A. Constantino’s article The Sentence Patterns of Twenty-Six Philippine Languages (1965) constitutes a landmark text in the grammatical description of Philippine languages (PLs) by a Filipino linguist. It presents a novel synthesis of two schools of grammatical theory often taken to be at odds with each other: American Descriptivist Immediate Constituent (IC)-Analysis and early...

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Tracing the provenance of Marinduque toponyms (co-authored with Emmanuel Jayson Bolata), at Marinduque State College, Boac, Marinduque, Friday, October 28, 2022

Paper read at the 44th Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) Conference held at Marinduque State College, Boac, Marinduque.

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This paper catalogs the place names (or toponyms) at the provincial, municipal, and barangay-level of the island province of Marinduque. Through a close reading of primary sources and dictionaries of various Philippine languages, hypotheses regarding the provenance of these toponyms are forwarded and organized based on ten (10) toponymic categories: physical descriptions, flora, fauna, persons, local or national events, geo-political...

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Porohanon as an island language, at Marinduque State College, Boac, Marinduque, Friday, October 28, 2022

Paper read at the 44th Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) Conference held at Marinduque State College, Boac, Marinduque.

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Porohanon (ISO 639-3 code prh) is a Bisayan variety spoken by more than 23,000 people in the Municipality of Poro, Camotes Islands, Province of Cebu (Eberhard, Simons, & Fennig, 2022). Adopting the questionnaire formulated by Lee (2022), this paper pulls together evidence from placenaming practices, the self-identification of members of the cultural community (and their relations with people from nearby areas), directional terms...

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Isang Radical Construction Grammar na Pagsusuri sa mga Pilíng Konstruksiyon sa Porohanon, at Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas, Padre Burgos Ave., Ermita, Manila, Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Papel na binasa sa Pambansang Kongreso sa mga Nanganganib na Wika 2022 ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)

 

Mapapanood ang recording ng sesyon sa: https://www.facebook.com/komfilgov/videos/680430103245568.

 

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