Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977
Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977

Author: J. Peter Maher

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9027280703

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The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving new theoretical insights from language data ranging from Ojibwa to Old-Saxon.

Philippine Ethnography
Philippine Ethnography

Author: Shiro Saito

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0824884124

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This volume is a comprehensive listing of reference sources for Philippine ethnology, excluding physical anthropology and de-emphasizing folklore and linguistics. It is published as part of the East-West Bibliographic Series. This listing includes books, journal articles, mimeographed papers, and official publications selected on the basis of the ratings of sixty-two Philippine specialists. Several titles were added to fill the need for material in certain areas.

Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis
Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis

Author: Leonard Bloomfield

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 2220

ISBN-13:

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In this essay, the author presents the first scientific analysis of the structure of the Tagalog language through the phonetic transcription of stories told by an educated speaker from San Miguel na Matamés, Bulacán Province, Luzón. The author discovered unique features of accentuation in the speaker's speech that were not mentioned in familiar treatises and studied the distinctive and regular use of "ligatures" in his speech. Although the author could not determine the extent to which these features were general in Tagalog due to a lack of adequate descriptions of dialectal differentiation in the language, the study provides valuable linguistic data for students of folk-lore and sheds light on the importance of linguistic and phonetic training for accurate language descriptions. The essay also highlights the inadequacy of existing Tagalog treatises in describing the language's pronunciation, making this study a groundbreaking contribution to the field.