This volume contains seventeen fully
analyzed Tagabawa texts, collected in the barangay of
Malasila in Cotabato Province, Mindanao, Philippines, from
1987-1990 as part of fieldwork. Tagabawa is in the South
Manobo subgroup of Manobo languages of the southern
Philippines and is spoken by approximately 30,000 speakers
living on the eastern and southern slopes of Mt. Apo.
Tagabawa is a verb-initial language and
displays typical Philippine-type morphosyntax. Of
particular interest is the presence of two types of
transitive clause: an active construction and an inverse
construction. The two constructions are distinguished by
word order and pronoun sets. Case marking of common nouns
and personal names is consistently ergative in both the VAP
active construction and the VPA inverse construction. Case
marking of pronouns forms a split ergative pattern; the
split pattern in the VAP active construction differs from
that in the VPA inverse construction.
The collection represents a variety of genre including
traditional narrative (explaining the origins of the
Tagabawa people, the physical world, their beliefs and
practices), factual narrative, expository, hortatory, and
litigation. Included with each text are detailed cultural
notes.
Each text is presented in a four-line interlinearized
format composed of an orthographic representation, a
morpheme analysis, a gloss for each morpheme, and a free
translation. A short introduction gives information about
the Tagabawa people and the orthographic representation,
and two appendices provide details about the word order
inverse, case markers, pronouns, locatives, prepositions,
and verb affixes.
2005. vii, 200 pp. ISSN 0119-6456 / ISBN 971-780-020-0
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