SIL Philippines

Linguistics Books

Aspects of Focus in Isnag Rodolfo Rosario Barlaan. 1999. 169 pp. $7.00
Looks at the focus system of Isnag from the viewpoints of grammar, semantics and pragmatics. A complete conversational text in Isnag is included as an appendix.

The Bidayuh Language: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Calvin R. Rensch, Carolyn M. Rensch, Jonas Noeb and Robert Sulis Ridu. 2006. xiv, 449 pp. $20.00  More...

Central Tagbanwa: A Philippine Language on the Brink of Extinction Linguistic Society of the Philippines Special Monograph. Issue, 48. Robert A. Scebold. 2003. xiii, 168 pp. $7.00  More...

Culture Contact and Language Convergence A. Kemp Pallesen. 1985. 365 pp. $9.00
A study of these phenomena in the Tausug and Sama-Bajaw language communities.

Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology: Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid. Edited by Hsiu-chuan Liao and Carl R. Galvez Rubino 2005. xxxii, 435 pp. $17.00  More...

An Ergative Description of Sama Bangingi' JoAnn Marie Gault. 1999. 90 pp. $6.00
The verbal system of Sama Bangingi' is analyzed both from the traditional viewpoint of focus orientation and from an ergative viewpoint.

A Grammar of Yakan Sherri Brainard and Dietlinde Behrens. 2002. 221 pp. $10.00  More...

Ibatan: A Grammatical Sketch of the Language Babuyan Claro Island Rundell D. Maree. 2007. xxviii, 410 pp. $13.00  More...

Language Use and Proficiency in a Multilingual Setting: a sociolinguistic survey of Agutaynen speakers in Palawan, Philippines. J. Stephen Quakenbush. 1989. reprinted in 2000 164 pp.
Describes patterns of use and proficiency among Agutaynen speakers in several communities of Palawan province. OUT OF PRINT. Available for download as individual articles.

Localist Case Grammar and Philippine Verbs Sherri Brainard, ed. 1998. 55 pp. $5.00
This book shows the application of a restricted version of localist case grammar to several Philippine languages (Karao, Limos Kalinga, Eastern Bontoc, Bantoanon, Romblomanon and Kagayanen).

Proto East Mindanao and Its Internal Relationships Andrew F. Gallman. 1997. 285 pp. $15.00
A comparative reconstruction of eastern Mindanao languages.

Role Relationships and Lexical Descriptions Applied to Batad Ifugao Leonard E. Newell. 2008. xvii, 175 pp. $10.00  More...

Yakan Texts Dietlinde Behrens. 2007. $10.00  More...