Presentations

The Contributions of Cecilio Lopez to Philippine Historical and Comparative Linguistics from Below, 1925-1976, at Philippine Historical Association Conference 2024, Friday, September 20, 2024

Histories of Philippine linguistics are unanimous in stating that Cecilio F. Lopez (1898-1979) is the first professional linguist of Filipino descent (Reid, 1981, p. 5; Gonzalez, 1993, p. 199-200; Quakenbush, 2005, p. 4; Rubrico, 2015; see also Constantino, ed., 1977 and Lopez, 1977). Having first earned a Bachelor of Science (major in zoology, minor in languages) degree from the University of the Philippines, Lopez’s status as professional linguist is attributed mainly to the Doctor of Philosophy (major in linguistics, minors in ethnology and phonetics) degree he earned in the...

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Porohanon Grammar Addenda, at Linguistic Society of the Philippines Virtual Talk Session: Thesis Sharing Session Online (TheSSO), Saturday, August 31, 2024
This talk contains some addenda to my master's thesis A Grammatical Sketch of Porohanon which sought "describe the phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic structures of Porohanon, a Bisayan language spoken in the Municipality of Poro, Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines." (Santiago, 2023). As they say, a good thesis is a finished one, and so I was not able to give more than a passing treatment to the rich set of discourse particles and the clause combining strategies of Porohanon due to time constraints. This presentation aims to gesture toward a full reference grammar treatment... Read more about Porohanon Grammar Addenda
Whence [ɛ] and [ɔ] in the languages of Central Philippines?, at 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Saturday, June 22, 2024

ABSTRACT

Carlos Everett Conant (1912)–in classic Neogrammarian fashion–has laid out the
regular occurrence of the Pepet vowel e and its supposed exceptionless
manifestations in a wide selection of Philippine languages (PLs). The general picture
is that an overwhelming majority of PLs have 3-4 significant vowel sounds; some
retain the original *i, *a, *u, and *e sounds of ancestral languages, others seem to
lose the “original indifferent vowel” (Ibid., p. 920) *e through “absorption” (p. 931),
or merging with one of the three other vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/....

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

ABSTRACT

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

Abstrak

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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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.

ABSTRACT

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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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.

Abstract


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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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.

Abstract

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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