Instructor Vincent Christopher A. Santiago‘s paper, “Tracing the Provenance of Marinduque Toponyms,” which he co-authored with UP Department of History Instructor Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata, has been published in the Social Science Diliman journal. Below is their abstract:
Tracing the Provenance of Marinduque Toponyms
This paper catalogs the provincial, municipal, and barangay-level place names—or toponyms—of the island province of Marinduque. Through close readings of primary historical sources and lexicographic texts, hypotheses on the provenance of these toponyms are forwarded. They are organized based on ten toponymic categories: physical descriptions, flora, fauna, persons, local or national events, geopolitical categories, human attributes, objects, concepts, or activities based partially on the categories in Jocano (1965), Medina (1992), Lesho and Sippola (2018), and Martynenko and Chesnokova (2019). The linguistic sources for Marinduque toponyms affirm the province’s place in the Tagalog-speaking regions, but strong signals also point to contact with Bisayan and Bikol communities.
The paper can be read and downloaded here.
Published by UP Department of Linguistics
