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Linkers, Ligatures & Complex Sentences

Na/ng ligatures, relative clauses, compound sentences with at/pero/kaya
Discourse cohesion devices in Tagalog texts
how extended texts maintain coherence
varies
Ang markers track topics; pronouns substitute; particles signal discourse moves
Text types and genre conventions in Filipino
narrative, expository, argumentative text organization
varies
Pabulang mga kwento (fables), editoryal (editorial), sanaysay (essay)
Register variation across text types
formal vs. informal sentence structure choices
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Formal: ay-inversion, upang, sapagkat; informal: no ay, para, dahil
Tagalog oral literature forms
epics, riddles, proverbs in Philippine oral tradition
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Epics: Florante at Laura; oral: bugtong (riddles), salawikain (proverbs)
Narrative voice and perspective in literature
point-of-view in Philippine literary tradition
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First-person ako-narration vs. omniscient; topic system tracks perspective shifts
Intertextuality in Philippine literature
references to myth, history, colonial experience
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Post-colonial literature engages Spanish and American colonial legacies explicitly
Reported speech and evidentiality marking
how sources of information are marked in discourse
varies
Daw/raw marks hearsay; direct quote vs. indirect report differ stylistically
Multiword expressions and idioms
fixed expressions resisting compositional analysis
varies
Bahala na, utang na loob -- culturally loaded multi-word idiomatic units
Contemporary Filipino internet language
social media and digital register evolution
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Jejemon orthography, Filipino Twitter and TikTok language patterns
Tagalog in translation theory
translating between Filipino, English, and regional languages
varies
Ibong Adarna translated across languages; fidelity vs. naturalness debates