What's New at SIL Philippines
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Forthcoming
* Narrative Episodes from the Tulalang Epic
* Role Relationships and Lexical Descriptions
Applied to Batad Ifugao
* SPLC 15-19: 10-ICAL selected papers
* Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan:
a volume-in-progress
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New: The
Lubuagan Mother Tongue Education Experiment (FLC):
A Report of Comparative Test Results
New Downloads available
for Mansaka.
New: Two titles from
Malaysia: The
Bidayuh Language and Indigenous Groups
of Sabah: An Annotated Bibliography
2007
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Ibatan: A Grammatical
Sketch of the Language Babuyan Claro
Island
This descriptive grammar is a
comprehensive and interesting coverage of all
systems of the language from a communicative point
of view.
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| Yakan Texts
Companion volume to Yakan-English
Dictionary and A Grammar of Yakan, also available
from this outlet.
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2006
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The Bidayuh Language:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Calvin R. Rensch, Carolyn M.
Rensch, Jonas Noeb and Robert Sulis Ridu. xiv, 449
pp.
Part I: efforts to document and develop the Bidayuh
language.
Part II: phonology of present-day Sarawak
Bidayuh.
Part III: reconstruction of Proto Bidayuh.
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| Indigenous Groups
of Sabah: An Annotated Bibliography of Linguistic
and Anthropological Sources
Compiled by Hans J.B. Combrink, Craig Soderberg,
Michael E. Boutin and Alanna Y. Boutin. Pt 1,
299pp; Pt 2, 309 pp.
A two-volume annotated bibliography providing
information about the availability of resources on
the languages and peoples of Sabah.
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Romblomanon
Dictionary
Compiled by Leonard E. Newell and
Emilia Tarbardilla . xviii, 853 pp.
Based on natural texts to provide a description of
words within phrases, sentences and culture; a
technical dictionary designed especially for
foreigners who wish to learn Romblomanon and work
within the language.
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10th International Conference on
Austronesian Linguistics 17-20 January 2006
Click here for papers
presented, etc.
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2005
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| The Ibatan: A
genealogy of the people of Babuyan Claro
Island
Complied by Judith Y.M. Maree. xlii, 807.
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Current
Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology:
Parangal kay
Lawrence A. Reid. 2005
Edited by Hsiu-chuan Liao and Carl
R. Galvez Rubino. xxxii, 435 pp.
This is a Festschrift in honor of Dr. Lawrence A.
Reid, Researcher Emeritus, Social Science Research
Institute and Department of Linguistics, University
of Hawai'i at Manoa.
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A Voice From Mt
Apo:
Oral and written essays on the culture
and world view of the Manobo
Written and recounted by Manuel
Arayam and others; Translated and annotated by Ena
E. Vander Molen. 2005. xxiii, 275 pp.
Inspired by A Voice From the Hills,
fourteen Obo Manobo contributors present over forty
items presenting a kaleidoscope of life on the
slopes of Mt. Apo.
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Studies in
Philippine Languages and Cultures Vol. 14: Tagabawa
Texts
Lauretta J. DuBois and Carl D.
DuBois, compilers. 2005. Tagabawa texts. xii, 200
pp.
Seventeen fully analyzed Tagabawa texts with
cultural notes.
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2004
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The Song from the Mango
Tree: A Manobo Raconteur Introduces His Repertoire
of Oral Literature with a Favourite Trickster
Narrative
Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, Ampatuan Ampalid. xi, 281
pp
A selection of five Manobo-English
diglot narratives with cultural notes from the oral
narrative repertoire of Ilianen Manobo raconteur
Ampatuan Ampalid. Oral literature classifications
based on Aarne-Thompson Type-Index, the Thompson
Motif-Index, and the Kirtley Motif-Index are
provided.
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SIL Philippines honored by
the PAARL Library
Award
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Philippine
Journal of Linguistics 34:1 June
2003
Special Issue on the Occasion of
the 50th Anniversary of the Summer Institute of
Linguistics. 164 pp.
Nine articles illustrate the range of typical
studies done by members of SIL, from descriptive
and comparative lexical studies, to discourse
analysis, and applied linguistics through literacy
studies.
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| Central Tagbanwa: A
Philippine Language on the Brink of Extinction;
Sociolinguistics, Lexicon, Grammar
Robert A. Scebold. 2003. xiii, pp .
168, map. A case study of an endangered language in
the Philippines including chapters on the
phonology, grammar, and lexicon of Central
Tagbanwa, and including vernacular texts.
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Studies in Philippine
Languages
and Cultures Vol. 13: Karao Texts
Sherri Brainard, compiler. 2003.
vi, 147 pp. Fifteen fully analyzed Karao texts.
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| SIL
Bibliography 1953-2003
Bibliography of the Summer
Institute of Linguistics Philippines
1953-2003
Rex A. Johnson, Grace O. Tan, and Cynthia Goshert,
compilers. 2003. 4th ed. xiii, 349 pp. Lists over
3,300 items relating to work in 94 languages.
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Recent Academic
Publications
Listing of works
done by SIL field personnel about the Philippines
that have been most recently published. The
publications are listed alphabetically by
author.
Recent Vernacular
Publications
Listing of the
vernacular works done by SIL field personnel in the
Philippines that have been most recently published.
The publications are listed alphabetically by
language.
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