This volume contains seventeen fully analyzed Tagabawa texts, collected in the barangay of Malasila in Cotabato Province, Mindanao, Philippines, from 1987-1990 as part of fieldwork. Tagabawa is in the South Manobo subgroup of Manobo languages of the southern Philippines and is spoken by approximately 30,000 speakers living on the eastern and southern slopes of Mt. Apo. Tagabawa is a verb-initial language and displays typical Philippine-type morphosyntax. Of particular interest is the presence of two types of transitive clause: an active construction and an inverse construction. The two constructions are distinguished by word order and pronoun sets. Case marking of common nouns and personal names is consistently ergative in both the VAP active construction and the VPA inverse construction. Case marking of pronouns forms a split ergative pattern; the split pattern in the VAP active construction differs from that in the VPA inverse construction.
The collection represents a variety of genre including traditional narrative (explaining the origins of the Tagabawa people, the physical world, their beliefs and practices), factual narrative, expository, hortatory, and litigation. Included with each text are detailed cultural notes.
Each text is presented in a four-line interlinearized format composed of an orthographic representation, a morpheme analysis, a gloss for each morpheme, and a free translation. A short introduction gives information about the Tagabawa people and the orthographic representation, and two appendices provide details about the word order inverse, case markers, pronouns, locatives, prepositions, and verb affixes.
2005. vii, 200 pp. ISSN 0119-6456 / ISBN 971-780-020-0
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