Vanessa Mak 2005-00875 Lingg 166 – Annotated Bibliography

1.
Aveda, F.M.B. (2003). Mga Semantik Koreleyt ng Pagkatransitibo sa Kwentong Sebwano.
Master’s thesis, University of the Philippines, Diliman.

The paper gives a description of semantic correlates in Cebuano and how it is reflected in
the languages morphosyntax and semantic structure. It also aims to determine the transitive and
intransitive constructions in Cebuano using Hopper and Thompson’s Transitivity Hypothesis as
Framework.
2.
Bell, S.J. (1978). Two Differences in Definiteness in Cebuano and Tagalog. Oceanic Linguistics,
17 (1) : 1-9. Honululu : University of Hawaii.

The article looks into the difference between Cebuano and Tagalog in showing
definiteness and their implications for a correlation between Philippine languages which permit
indefinite subjects in verbal clause and Philippine languages that do not.
3.
Bergh, J.D. van den. (1958). Analysis of Syntax and Affix System in Bisaya. Surigao : Sacred
Heart Missionaries.

The book is an introduction to Bisaya syntax, morphology, and affix system. In this
paper. 4000 lines of Bisaya text were analyzed.
4.
Cubar, N.I. (1925).. Adverbials in Six Philippine Languages : Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon,
Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano. Doctoral thesis, University of the Philippines,
Diliman.

The paper aims to identity the origin of adverbials in Philippine Languages using data
from six languages. Cubar applies the analyses of Meisel (1073), Lakoff (1965), and Chafe
(1972).
5.
Gaitan, M.A. (2003). Function Words in Hiligaynon-Filipino Translations : A Study in
Comparative Syntax. Masteral thesis, University of the Philippines, Diliman.

The study aims to look into the common grammatical problems with Hiligaynon to
Filipino translations, with paricular focus on the importance of function words in the syntactic
and semantic interpretation of sentences nd phraes in Hiligaynon.
6.
Llido, P. (2006). Inflectional Caes Assignment. Paper presented at Tenth International Conference
on Austronesian Linguistics. 1720 January 2006. Puerto Princesa City, Palawan,
Philippines. Retrieved January 8, 2008 from:
http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers.html

The paper applies Falk 1997 to Cebuano (CEB) case marking, to explain that the internal
argument canonical structure of the verb grammar is controlled by the system of inflectional
affixes. It will also look into case projection of arguments by applying GB/PP and Minimalist
Program.
7.
Morey, A.M. (1961). Cebuano Reference Materials. Philippines : Summer Institute of Linguistics,
Philippines and Philippine Association for Language Teaching.
 Pedagogical materials for learning Cebuano which provides a description and analysis of
Cebuano morpholgoy and syntax.
8.
Nolasco, R. (2005). What Philippine ergativity really means. Paper presented at Taiwan-Japan
Joint Workshop on Austronesian Languages. 23-24 June 2005. Taipei, Taiwan.
Retrieved August 4, 2007, from:
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/data/workshop%20on%20Austronesian/11%20nolasc
o.pdf.

The paper examines the focus system of Philippine languages. By looking at the focus
system, it will prove the ergativity of grammatical patterns in Philippine Languages. It also
identifies transitive from intransitive constructions, using Hopper and Thompson 1980.
9.
Reid, L. and Hsiu Chuan Liao. (2001). A Brief Syntactic Typology of Philippine Languages. Paper
presented at International Symposium on Austronesian Cultures: Issues Relating to
Taiwan, December 8-11, 2001, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Retrieved January 8, 2008 from:
www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/eip/FILES/journal/2007.3.9.20136660.1360815.pdf

The paper looks into the typological characteristics of syntactic structures in Philippine
languages, using a lexicalist theoritical framework to compare the sentence examples.
10.
Reid, L. (2002). Determiners, Nouns, or What? Problems in the Analysis of Some Commonly
Occuring Forms in Philippine Languages. Oceanic Linguistics, 41 (2) : 295-309.
Honolulu : University of Hawaii.

The paper looks into the problems in determining the syntactic category og the initial
word in common nouns phrases in Philippine languages such as Tagalog ang, by examining
syntactic distribution.
11.
Rubrico, J. (2006). Komputasyon ng mga Simpleng Verbal Klos sa Cebuano batay sa Minimalist
Program. Doctoral thesis, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Retrieved January 8,
2008 from: http://www.languagelinks.org/onlinepapers/onlinepapers.html

The paper looks into the applicability og Minimalist Program in accounting for the
derivation of simple verbal clauses in Cebuano.
12.
Trosdal, M. (1992). Formal-Functional Grammar of Cebuano. Cebu City : M.B. Trosdal.

This is a guide to learning the grammatical processes of Cebuano-Bisayan using a

framework of grammar in which the components of the structure are formally-functionally
definds by l,inguistic formulas.
13.
Wolff, J.U. (1965). Cebuano Visayan Syntax. Doctoral thesis, Yale University.

The reference grammar covers Cebuano phonology, morphophonemics, forms, classes,

and constructions by means of formula. Two paradigms in word-order are used : one-way
transformational and two-way transformational.