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- Title: Determinacy in Hiligaynon.
- Author : Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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ABSTRACT. In Hiligaynon (Central Bisayan, Philippines), verbal and nominal forms are derived from base roots, the former typically employing voice/aspect affixes and the latter, prenominal determiners. Excluding the deictics (pronouns and demonstratives) there are 10 determiners. DETERMINACY is a scalar quality that delineates participants filling roles in propositions by differentiating degrees of focus according to the knowledge matrix constructed by the grammar (see Baker 1994, Davis, Baker, Spitz & Baek 1998). In Hiligaynon, focus is distributed on a clause-by-clause basis. It constructs a definiteness that is distinct from that of topic and from the broader pragmatic basis of identifiability found in English. The focus continuum distinguishes personal, nonpersonal, and oblique participants. Determinacy exists in all languages, but in language-specific terms. Hiligaynon determinacy attends to the substantiation of participants in events, corresponding with the individuation of Ilokano, the actualization of Yogad, and the immediacy of Limos Kalinga, as described in Baker (1994). (*) INTRODUCTION. Like Philippine languages generally, Hiligaynon lacks a clear-cut lexical distinction between noun and verb. (1) Lexical bases, or roots, may be marked with verbal voice/aspect affixes or with nominal determiners to name events or the participants within them. In Hiligaynon, the focused nominal is marked by the determiner ang, the event role it fills being marked by the verbal voice affix as either relatively motile (ACTIVE, AGENTIVE) or inert (PASSIVE, PATIENTIVE) (see Spitz 2001, 2002). (2) To illustrate, in 1 the root sulat names an event when marked with gin- as 'wrote', and a participant when focused by the determiner ang as 'the letter' (see Section 2.2). Meanwhile, the non-focused associate babaye 'woman' is marked with sang and the oblique maestro 'teacher' with sa.