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Active verbal affixes are mo-, mag-, ma-, maka-, and the pluralizer mang-. 4.2.2 Mood is the "inflection form of a verb: to express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived. as fact or in some other manner as command, possibility or wish." Mood for Cebuano verbs may be. classified as follows:
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Take for example in Cebuano, (1) Gikasuk-an nako siya. ‘I scolded him’. (2) Nasuko ko (ka)niya. ‘I became angry at him.’. These two sentences have been traditionally analyzed as both in the perfective aspect but exhibiting different focuses. Sentence (1) has been interpreted as either passive or containing a referential focus.
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Cebuano vocabulary has been strongly influenced by Spanish, with many Spanish words coming into common usage and becoming nativized in Cebuano. Examples: kuros, from cruz ‘cross’ suwirti, from suerte ‘luck’ guwapa, from guapa ‘beautiful’
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A conception of the main Cebuano sentence structure may now be obtained from the very generalized formula: ① ③ （D PV+S 土 S士 S (1)The materials on which this article is based were collected during a period of three months field work under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics at its Mindanao headquarters
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The grammar of Cebuano shares many features with other Austronesian languages of the Philippines such as Tagalog and Ilokano.
Cebuano vocabulary is Austronesian in origin. It shares many words with Tagalog. As a result of Spanish influence, Cebuano also contains many words of Spanish origin, such as names of the days of the week and months. In addition, the language has borrowed words from Chinese, Arabic, and English. Some examples are krus from Spanishcruz ‘cross‘, hays...
Although it is commonly believed that each province in the Philippines had its own ancient alphabet, Spanish writers of the 16th century reported that the practice of writing was found only in the Manila area at the time of first contact. Writing spread to the other islands later, in the middle of the 16th century. The Spaniards usually called the ...
1.5 Cebuano Noun Phrase Markers. Background. 2.1 Outline of Cebuano Grammar. 2.2 Cebuano Voice System. 2.3 Analyses of Tagalog and Applications to Cebuano. Noun Phrase Markers as Topic Markers. 3.1 Previous Analysis in Cebuano. 3.2 Evidence in Favor of the Topic Marker Analysis. 3.3 Evidence Against the Topic Marker Analysis.
CEBUANO-ENGLISH Sample Dictionary. This is an attempt to present a dictionary of Cebuano that describes its core lexicon adequately and accurately, yet user-friendly and economical.
