Presentations

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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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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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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Counter-Babel: Reframing Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Philippines, at Online, Wednesday, August 25, 2021
I participated in a roundtable discussion organized by Asst. Prof. Maria Kristina Gallego "Counter-Babel: Reframing Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Philippines" for the 14th Philippine Linguistics Congress. We were joined by Louward Allen Zubiri, PhD student at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Ruanni Tupas, sociolinguist at the University College of London, Jeconiah Dreisbach, lecturer at De La Salle University, and Diane Manzano, assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Session recording available at https://fb.watch/7Ew5om21N0/. Read more about Counter-Babel: Reframing Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Philippines

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