A Bibliography and Brief Review of Work Done on the Grammars of Philippine Languages

Abstract

I see as my main task in this talk that of highlighting certain trends and issues in the grammatical analysis of Philippine languages, as well as to give an overview of work done so far along this line. I have tried to accomplish the latter task through a bibliography of grammatical works. I make no claim to exhaustiveness in this bibliography since I have had to rely on works and citations that I have been able to find in the all-too-little time that I have been able to devote to the preparation of this paper. In spite of its deficiencies, I hope that the bibliography will be helpful at least in indicating the types, if not the extent or depth, of research studies that have been done on the grammars of Philippine languages. Included are works that are either full descriptions of particular languages or limited to particular topics in grammar, but not those that appear to me to be mainly or exclusively concerned with areas such as phonology, lexicography, and the like. I have also limited the scope to the period 1950 through 1975, again because of time limitations in the preparation of this paper; however, it seems to me that it was during this period that there was a great increase in the interest in describing Philippine languages within some theoretical framework, hence a time period of considerable significant to the history of Philippine linguistics. Within the limits described, I have exercised no further selectivity, leaving it to the user to decide the value of each work to his own needs.