This volume contains fifteen fully analyzed Karao texts, collected in the village of Karao in Benguet Province, Luzon, Philippines, between 1988 and 2003 as part of on-going fieldwork. Karao is a Southern Cordilleran language of the Northern Philippines and is spoken by approximately 1400 people. The language displays typical Philippine-type morphosyntax. Case marking has a consistently ergative-absolutive pattern, but syntactic control displays a mixed pattern in that control is distributed more or less evenly between the two grammatical relations of the transitive clause.
The collection contains traditional narratives, including two classic Karao accounts, one about how the Karaos came to their present location in Benguet Province and the other about why snakes do not bite the Karaos. In addition to traditional narrative, first-person narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory genre are also represented.
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 Karao people, the orthographic representation, principles of analysis, and the version of localist case grammar used for the analysis of verbs and semantic roles in the texts. Three appendices provide additional details about nominal markers, pronouns, verb affixes, and nominalizing affixes.
2003. vi, 147pp. ISSN 0119-6456 / ISBN 971-780-017-0
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