A reference grammar of Itawit

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2021
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Abstract
This dissertation explicates the grammar of Itawit, a language spoken in northern part of the Philippines, using spoken data which included naturally-occurring conversations of native speakers from various settings in the Itawit-speaking community, narrative data elicited through Pear stories, and spoken-like data which were posts taken from two active Itawit Facebook pages. The study is considered to be the first to describe the intricacies of Itawit grammar using recorded spoken data; other sources include the informants and participants who are native speakers of the language. It employed the eclectic approach which is a fusion of concepts from varied proponents in describing certain grammatical features of the language.This Reference Grammar of Itawit has 16 chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction, which includes a general background the Itawit people and their language, theoretical frameworks, and previous studies and literature about Itawit. In Chapter 2, data and methodology employed in this dissertation are clearly presented.Chapter 3 presents a description of the language’s phonemic inventory. Specifically, it discusses the various sounds of Itawit by presenting the language’s five vowels, two diphthongs, and twenty-two consonants using the articulatory model. Consonant clusters, as emphasized, are evident only in borrowed words. Moreover, the chapter also presents syllable structures and some phonological processes observed like vowel loss, vowel change, monothongization of diphthong, consonant change, and metathesis. Chapter 4 delves into Itawit morphology specifically the morphological processes that are involved in the formation of new words and new meanings in Itawit. These include the use of affixes and reduplication. The discussion here subscribes to the idea that there is no clear-cut classification of words or parts of the words into nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Instead, like other Philippine languages, the interrelationship among roots, affixes, and particles and their use in the discourse determine their classification. In Chapter 5, the nonverbal and verbal clauses are distinguished while the Itawit nominal marking system is described in chapter 6. Chapter 7 presents Itawit pronominals which include personal, demonstrative, and indefinite. Pronouns in Itawit do not mark gender distinctions. They also encode person, number, and respect. Chapter 8 presents a lengthy discussion of the various features of noun which include number, gender, morphological formation, nominalization, compounding and borrowings. The discussion on the gender of nouns revealed that nouns that are gender specific are usually Spanish-loaned words which typically end in -u/o for the masculine gender and-a to indicate the feminine gender. There are
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Authors Ayunon, Chirbet C.
Journal Malay Journal
Year 2021
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