Grad students publish their papers in “JSEALS”

The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) just released a special publication of the Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) which features papers that were presented at the 30th Meeting of SEALS held online last year. Among the papers included in the proceedings are studies by our MA students.

Vincent Christopher Santiago‘s paper is on the nominal anchoring functions of Porohanon common noun markers. Porohanon, which is part of the Central Bisayan subgroup of languages, is spoken in the Camotes Islands located to the east of Cebu Island. In this paper, Vincci proposes an alternative to previous classifications of common noun markers in the language based on the case and specificity that they mark.

Edward Estrera’s paper on Bagobo-Klata phonology introduces the phonemic inventory, phonotactic rules and phonological processes that he observed in documenting the Bagobo-Klata language, a Southern Philippine language largely spoken in the eastern slopes of Mt. Apo in Davao del Sur.

Earvin Christian Pelagio, Rexie Quizon, Johans Cruz, Jemima Atok, and Kevin Ray Abesamis presented a paper discussing the morphophonological processes involved in forming the perfective aspect in Kapampangan. They present evidence showing that, instead of having three different replacive infixes as described in previous studies on Kapampangan, the language has only one, which is the infix -i-, and it changes its form based on the vowel and structure of the first syllable of the stem.

The papers may be freely accessed online at the digital repository of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Recordings of the paper presentations at last year’s conference are also still available for viewing at the SEALS Conference website.

Congratulations to our grad students!