Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis

by Leonard Bloomfield

II. GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS.

Note.—The following grammatical analysis of Mr. Santiago’s speech can, of course, lay no claim to completeness: he surely uses some constructions and very many forms which I have not heard or have failed to note. Such fulness as will be found is due to Mr. Santiago’s intelligence and patience under questioning and in conversation. A very few of the examples represent his form of sentences in MacKinlay’s Handbook. The full representation of derivatives of the root pútol cut is due to Mr. Santiago’s kindness in listing these forms, wherever they seemed possible to his speech-feeling, in accordance with my list of morphologic elements, and in then forming sentences to illustrate them.

In the use of accent-marks and of the symbol y I have deviated from the practice of the International Phonetic Association. Where roots did not occur as independent words, I have prefixed a hyphen and given a theoretical meaning. In the explanation of constructions I have allowed myself the use of distorted English; although this time-honored device does not really reproduce the foreign expression (substituting, as it does, impossible constructions for natural ones), it does enable the reader to follow the general trend of the foreign idiom.