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, that was launched at the 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL), 17-20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines.
Contents:
Robin Hemley — Laurie Reid's Importance to the Tasaday Controversy
Part One: Overview
J. Stephen Quakenbush — Philippine Linguistics from an SIL Perspective: Trends and Prospects
Part Two: Social, Cultural, and Historical Aspects of Philippine Languages
Robert A. Blust — The Linguistic Macrohistory of the Philippines: Some Speculations
John U. Wolff — The Philippine Languages and the Determination of PAN Syllable Structure
Ronald S. Himes — The Meso-Cordilleran Group of Philippine Languages
Andrew Gonzalez — Contemporary Filipino (Tagalog) and Kapampangan: Two Philippine Languages in Contact
Jun Akamine — Whisper of the Palms: Etic and Emic Perspectives in Comparative Linguistics
David Zorc — Aklanon tag- and Extra-systemic Linguistic Phenomena
Emy M. Pascasio — The Filipino Bilingual from a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Part Three: The Lexicon
Jason Lobel — The Angry Register of the Bikol Language of the Philippines
Malcolm Mintz — Terms of Religious Adaptation: The Introduction of Christianity to the Bikol Region of the Philippines
Leonard E. Newell — Bridging Cultures with a Bilingual Dictionary
Yukihiro Yamada — Simile in Itbayat, Philippines
James J. Fox — A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship Terminologies of Northern Luzon
Tsunekazu Moriguchi — Lexical Variations in the Batanic Language Group: Male and Female Urination
Domingo A. Madulid — Problems and Solutions in Documenting Local Plant Names in the Philippines
Part Four: Grammatical Systems
Katsura Aoyama — Geminates in Guinaang Bontok: Sonority Hierarchy and Phonetic Realization
Videa P. De Guzman — Aspects of Tagalog Compounding
Carl Rubino — Utudnon, an Undescribed Language of Leyte
Hiroaki Kitano — Ergativity and Equational Structure in Kapampangan
Hsiu-chuan Liao — Pronominal Forms in Central Cagayan Agta: Clitics or Agreement Features
Sherri Brainard and Ena Vander Molen — Word Order Inverse in Obo Manobo
Paz Buenaventura Naylor — On the Stative Predicate: Tagalog "Existentials" Revisited
2005. Manila: LSP & SIL. ISBN: 971-780-022-7
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