Constituent Structure in a Tagalog Text

If there are no classes of noun or verb in Tagalog, how can there be noun phrases and verb phrases? This paper contributes to the discussion on form classes in Tagalog by taking a detailed, inductive, line-by-line look at the structures and constituents found in a randomly selected Tagalog text, to...

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Published inLanguage and linguistics (Taipei) Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 761 - 774
Main Author LaPolla, Randy J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2014
Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics
Subjects
Classification
Form classes
Indo-European languages
Language typology
Languages
Linguistics
Logic
Noun phrases
Nouns
Phrases
Predicate
Tagalog language
Verbs
linguistic typology
phrase structure
Austronesian languages
form classes
Tagalog
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Summary:If there are no classes of noun or verb in Tagalog, how can there be noun phrases and verb phrases? This paper contributes to the discussion on form classes in Tagalog by taking a detailed, inductive, line-by-line look at the structures and constituents found in a randomly selected Tagalog text, to create a typology of the structures found therein. It is shown that, while there are very obvious constructions with generally clearly differentiated functions, they do not correspond with noun phrases and verb phrases in Indo-European languages, as it cannot be said that one form is used for predication and another for reference.
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ISSN:1606-822X
2309-5067
DOI:10.1177/1606822X14544619