CONTENTS

PAGE
[DEDICATION] I
[INTRODUCTION] III
[PREFATORY REMARKS] IV
[CONTENTS]IX
[ORTHOGRAPHY AND PROSODY]
[LETTERS]1
[THE ACCENTS]2
[PUNCTUATION]3
[VOWELS]5
[SYLLABLES]5
[CAPITALIZATION]5
[CONTRACTIONS] 7
[ETYMOLOGY]
[PARTS OF SPEECH]6
[Articles]7
[Declension]8
[Nouns]9
[Diminutive]10
[Figurative]12
[Verbal]13
[Compound]22
[Derivative]23
[Proper and Common]29
[Positive, Comparative, and Superlative]32
[Cardinal, Ordinal, Partitive, and Distributive]35
[Collective]38
[Gender]40
[Number]40
[Case]41
[Important Observation]41
[Transposition of Accents]43
[Pronouns]47
[Personal]47
[Demonstrative]48
[Possessive]50
[Relative]52
[Contractions]56
[Verbs]57
[Conjugation—Voices]58
[Moods and Tenses]58
[Number and Person]61
[Inflections]61
Table 1.—[Primitive Active]61
Table 2.—[Progressive Active]61
Table 3.—[Primitive Direct Passive][[X]]68
Table 4.—[Progressive Direct Passive]70
Table 5.—[Primitive Indirect Passive]73
Table 6.—[Progressive Indirect Passive]75
Table 7.—[Primitive Instrumental Passive]76
Table 8.—[Progressive Instrumental Passive]78
[Negative Forms]80
[Interrogative Forms]82
[Suppletory Verbs]84
[Pronominal Form]84
[Adverbial Form]84
[Observation]87
[Impersonal Verbs]88
[Defective Verbs]88
[Other classes of Verbs]89
[Active Voice]90
[Direct Passive]93
[Indirect Passive]96
[Instrumental Passive]96
[Depreciative Verbs]96
[Adverbs]97
[Prepositions]98
[Conjunctions]98
[Interjections]99
[SYNTAX]
[Subjective relation]100
[Predicative relation]100
[Attributive relation]100
[Complementary relation]101
[Adverbial relation]102
[Representative relation]102
[Connective relation]103
[Absolute and independent constructions]103
[Syntax of verbs]103
[Arrangement of words]105
[VIOLATIONS OF GOOD USE]105
[Barbarisms]105
[Foreign words]105
[Foreign words unnecessarily used in Bisayan]106
[Spanish words]106
[Chinese words]111
[English words]111
[Foreign constructions]112
[Foreign words necessarily used in Bisayan]112
[APPENDIX]
[NOTES ON BISAYAN RHETORIC AND POETICS]117
[Figures of Speech]117
[Prose]121
[Letters]121
[Poetic forms]123
[Versification]123
[Collection of some Bisayan songs]124
[Moral Poetry][[XI]]124
[Philosophic Poetry]125
[Love Poetry]125
[Sundry]126
[NOTE ON FILIPINO DIALECTOLOGY]128
[Words exactly the same in Bisayan and in Tagalog]128
[Words with some dialectal differences]130
[Differences in the vowels i, o]130
[Differences k, h, l, r, d, t]131
[Differences in the accent, and in the separation of the syllables]132
[Transformation from a to o and viceversa]132
[ERRATA] 133

[[1]]