1596, which designated some islands and reefs of China's Nansha Qundao and large areas of their surrounding waters as "Kalayaan Island Group" ("Kalayaan" in Tagalog means "Freedom"), set up "Municipality of Kalayaan" and illegally included them in the Philippine territory. 60. The ...
Tagalog is verb-initial, and it also has scrambling among its postverbal arguments (Kroeger1993). As is common in many languages of the Philippines, it has a voice system. One element, marked withang, is selected as the pivot, with the thematic role of the pivot corresponding with a parti...
the f0 of a tone may dip or rise at the edges depending on the surrounding tones, consonant influence, or position in the sentence. This may give rise to a surface phonetic contour. In some languages, such edge tone effects can become phonologized. For example, in Yoruba,...
4, 6 For example, there is one fully trained nephrologist in the Pacific Islands (Fiji). The provision of dialysis services is similarly variable, with a full range of services available under public funding in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore but only user-pay facilities in some of the...
On the other hand, the aide memoir – report submitted by Don Carlos Palanca to the Schurmann Commission in 1906 -- indicates the following: "...apart from the eight Tagalog provinces described as Spanish-speaking, there are another eight provinces which are equally Spanish speaking." (From ...