This paper investigates the development of a particular contact-induced change in the voice morphology of Ibatan, an Austronesian language spoken on the island community of Babuyan Claro in the far north of the Philippines. Given its close history with the Ilokano language, Ibatan has developed parallel paradigms for actor voice durative verbs, namely the native paradigm pay-, and the non-native paradigm pag-, which developed mainly through large-scale lexical transfer. Generally, the non-native paradigm occurs with non-native stems, forming complex loanwords, whereas the native paradigm typically occurs with native stems. However, there are also cases of hybrid formations, which involve combinations of native and non-native materials. The patterns in the distribution of the parallel paradigms reflect layers of contact-induced language change, which are driven by different agents with varying degrees of psycholinguistic dominance in Ibatan, and these are argued to be underpinned by the changing social landscape of the Babuyan Claro community.
- Author: Maria Kristina S. Gallego
- Publication Date: 2023, January 19
- Publication Type: Book Chapter
- Published In: Traces of Contact in the Lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan Studies
- Topics: Language Contact, Language Change
- Link: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004529458/BP000010.xml?body=contentsummary-60827