![]() ![]() Chapter Six describes Masbatenyo’s nominal marking system including determiners, grammatical functions of the determiners, and demonstratives. Chapter Five presents the verbal and non-verbal clause types of Masbatenyo. Chapters Three and Four describe the phonology and morphology of Masbatenyo, respectively. Chapter Two describes the research methodology, the data and corpus, and the participants of the study. It also presents the research gap, research objectives, and the theoretical orientation of the study. Chapter One introduces Masbatenyo language and the people, presents relevant studies in Bikol languages and reviews on previous studies in Masbatenyo. The dissertation consists of eighteen chapters. GF verbs consist of verb stem plus the following affixes: for PAT -on or -a, LOC -an, BEN -an or -i, INST i- or ipan(g)-, COM ka-/-an, and TH i. The GF affixes consist of patient focus (PAT), locative focus (LOC), benefactive focus (BEN), instrumental focus (INST), comitative focus (COM), and theme (TH). The AF affixes are mag-, mang-, and -um. The Actor Focus (AF) affixes are intransitive while the Goal Focus (GF) affixes are transitive. Masbatenyo nominal case-marking exhibits an ergative pattern. The clause may also contain adverbial particles. The noun phrase consists of a head noun and a case marker. The verbal clause consists of verb element and a noun phrase, a pronominal, an adverbial particle(s), temporal, or locative demonstrative. A verbal clause is verb-initial while a non-verbal clause may be nominal, adjectival, prepositional, locative or existential. ![]() The basic clause can be a non-verbal or verbal clause. Masbatenyo is a predicate-initial language. ![]() It also rates Masbatenyo’s language status as 3 (Wider communication) based on EGIDS or Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, which means that it is a language used for wider communication at various domains such as home, work, and market. Ethnologue (2021) classifies Masbatenyo as Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippines, Central Philippines, Bisayan, Central, Peripheral. It is spoken by over 890,000 people residing in its three major islands: the Masbate Island, Ticao Island, and Burias Island (PSA, 2016). Masbatenyo (also called Masbateño or Minasbate ISO 639-3 identifier msb) refers to the people as well as the language spoken in the island province of Masbate in Bicol Region, the Philippines. ![]()
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