A Reference Grammar of Masbatenyo. A Language Spoken in the Island Province of Masbate, Bicol Region, Philippines

      Аннотация: Masbatenyo (also called Masbate?o or Minasbate; ISO 639-3 identifier msb) refers to the people as well as the language spoken in the island province of Masbate in Bicol Region, the Philippines. It is spoken by over 890,000 people residing in its three major islands: the Masbate Island, Ticao Island, and Burias Island (PSA, 2016). Ethnologue (2021) classifies Masbatenyo as Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippines, Central Philippines, Bisayan, Central, Peripheral. It also rates Masbatenyo’s language status as 3 (Wider communication) based on EGIDS or Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, which means that it is a language used for wider communication at various domains such as home, work, and market. This book offers 18 chapters covering Masbatenyo's phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties. Chapters include phonology, morphology, clause types, nominal marking system, pronominals, nominals, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, numbers, existentials, connectors, interrogativity, negation, and syntactic processes of Masbatenyo.

Ключевые слова: applied linguistics, Philippine languages, Masbatenyo, language Documentation, Mother tongue-based multilingual education, MTB-MLE, Bicol, Masbate, Philippines