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A Bisayan Grammar and Notes on Bisayan Rhetoric and Poetics and Filipino Dialectology

A Bisayan Grammar and Notes on Bisayan Rhetoric and Poetics and Filipino Dialectology

by Norberto Romuáldez

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Author
Romuáldez, Norberto, 1875-1941
Title
Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
Language
English
LoC Class
PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Subject
Waray language -- Grammar
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 69603
Release Date
December 22, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION
  3. 3.PREFATORY REMARKS
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.ORTHOGRAPHY AND PROSODY
  6. 6.LETTERS.
  7. 7.THE ACCENTS.
  8. 8.PUNCTUATION.
  9. 9.VOWELS
  10. 10.SYLLABLES
  11. 11.CAPITALIZATION
  12. 12.CONTRACTIONS
  13. 13.ETYMOLOGY.
  14. 14.Parts of Speech. — ARTICLES. — NOUNS — DIMINUTIVE — FIGURATIVE — VERBAL — COMPOUND — DERIVATIVE — PROPER AND COMMON — POSITIVE, COMPARATIVE, AND SUPERLATIVE. — CARDINAL, ORDINAL, PARTITIVE, AND DISTRIBUTIVE. — COLLECTIVE — Gender. — Number — Case. — IMPORTANT OBSERVATION. — Transposition of accents. — PRONOUNS — PERSONAL. — DEMONSTRATIVE . — POSSESSIVE. — RELATIVE — CONTRACTIONS . — VERBS — CONJUGATION — INFLECTIONS. — TABLE 1 — TABLE 2. — TABLE 3 — TABLE 4. — TABLE 5 — TABLE 6. — TABLE 7 — TABLE 8. — NEGATIVE FORMS — INTERROGATIVE FORMS — SUPPLETORY VERBS — OBSERVATIONS. — Observation. — IMPERSONAL VERBS — DEFECTIVE VERBS — OTHER CLASSES OF VERBS — DEPRECATIVE VERBS — ADVERBS — ADVERBS OF PLACE — ADVERBS OF TIME — ADVERBS OF DEGREE — ABVERBS OF MANNER — ADVERBS OF DOUBT — ADVERBS OF AFFIRMATION — ADVERBS OF NEGATION — ADVERBS OF CAUSE — PREPOSITIONS — CONJUNCTIONS — COPULATIVE — DISJUNCTIVE — ADVERSATIVE — CONDITIONAL — INTERJECTIONS
  15. 15.SYNTAX
  16. 16.SUBJECTIVE RELATION
  17. 17.PREDICATIVE RELATION
  18. 18.ATTRIBUTIVE RELATION
  19. 19.COMPLEMENTARY RELATION
  20. 20.ADVERBIAL RELATION
  21. 21.REPRESENTATIVE RELATION
  22. 22.CONNECTIVE RELATIONS
  23. 23.ABSOLUTE AND INDEPENDENT CONSTRUCTIONS
  24. 24.SYNTAX OF VERBS — ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS
  25. 25.VIOLATIONS OF GOOD USE — BARBARISMS — FOREIGN WORDS — FOREIGN WORDS UNNECESSARILY USED IN BISAYAN — FOREIGN CONSTRUCTIONS — FOREIGN WORDS NECESSARILY ADOPTED IN BISAYAN
  26. 26.APPENDIX — NOTES ON BISAYAN RHETORIC AND POETICS — FIGURES OF SPEECH — PROSE — LETTERS — POETIC FORMS — VERSIFICATION — COLLECTION OF SOME BISAYAN SONGS — MORAL POETRY — PHILOSOPHIC POETRY — LOVE POETRY — SUNDRY
  27. 27.NOTES ON FILIPINO DIALECTOLOGY — WORDS EXACTLY THE SAME IN BISAYAN AND IN TAGALOG — A — B — K — D — I — H — L — M — N — O — P — S — T — W — WORDS WITH SOME DIALECTAL DIFFERENCES
  28. 28.ERRATA
  29. 29.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations

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