UP Department of Linguistics

02/09/2026

See you later for Lexicon Unpacked: Tahanan!
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LEXICON UNPACKED: TAHANAN
2 September 2026 | Wednesday | 6:00 PM
Online via YouTube livestream

Lexicon Unpacked is a lecture series that seeks to unravel the meaning, usage, and context of terminologies considered as important for the history and culture of the community that uses them.

For this installment, and in celebration of Linguistics Month 2026, the UP Department of Linguistics presents two lectures from its faculty members:

"Home Sweet...Ano? Bahay, Tirahan, at Tahanan"
Asst. Prof. Divine Angeli P. Endriga

"Uwi: What we mean when we 'go home'"
Instr. John Michael Vincent S. De Pano

Moderator: Lect. Michael S. Manahan
This event is free and open to the public. For inquiries, you may send an email to .

Lexicon Unpacked is a lecture series that seeks to unravel the mean...

01/09/2026

Asst. Prof. Vincci Santiago‘s essay, “Ano ang Ibig Sabihin ng ‘Bigat’?” has been published in the “Virtual, Virtual, Viral, Seasonal, and Solitary – Writing the OPM Songs” e-book of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Santiago’s work explores the literal and connotative meanings of the word bigat, and how it is often used in describing performances in several genres like rock and metal.

Asst. Prof. Vincci Santiago‘s essay, “Ano ang Ibig Sabihin ng ‘Bigat’?” has been published in the “Virtual, Virtual, Viral, Seasonal, and Solitary – Writing the OPM Songs” e-book of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Santiago’s work explores the literal and connotative m...

01/09/2026

ON SANDHI IN THE IBANÁG LANGUAGE
Carlos O. Brandes and Otto Scheerer
1927-1928
The Archive Paper No. 6


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ON SANDHI IN THE IBANÁG LANGUAGE
Carlos O. Brandes and Otto Scheerer
1927-1928
The Archive Paper No. 6

[EXCERPT]
In the present paper an exposition is attempted of the principal ones of those sound-changes in the Ibanág language which, in the formation of sentences, occur at the beginning or at the end of a word, and which are caused thru the influence of a preceding or a following sound. Sound-changes of this kind are termed ‘sandhi’, a name originally used by the ancient Indian grammarians for similar phenomena in Sanskrit. As is generally done, we widen the scope of this term somewhat, and consider under it also those sound-changes which in present-day grammar are observed in the building up of words thru the addition of formative elements.

The Ibanág language is spoken in Cagayán, a province occupying the whole northeastern corner of Luzón and extending from there in a narrow western strip along the greater part of the north coast of this island. Neighboring territories are, in the west, the districts of Apayao and Kalinga, both subdivisions of the Mountain Province, and, in the south, the province of Isabela where Ibanág is also spoken. Ibanág, meaning primarily ‘people by the Bánnag’ (i.e. outlying suburbs) of Amulung, Iguig, Piat, Tuao, and Enrile, further the barrios of Tuguegarao, Solana, and Peñablanca use the Itawit, a dialect closely allied to Ibanág. The centers of the three last mentioned municipalities, however, speak a pure and uniform Ibanág. In fact, since Tuguegarao has already since Spanish times been the capital and intellectual center of the province, the Ibanág here spoken represents the most polished form of this language, and to it we principally refer in this paper.

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01/09/2026

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JLPT N5 Review Class
Saturdays, F2F 14:00-16:00

This review class is free and open to Extramural Classes students and alumni, as well as UP Department of Linguistics majors and alumni. Photocopying expenses will be shouldered by the student.

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31/08/2026

LEXICON UNPACKED: TAHANAN
2 September 2026 | Wednesday | 6:00 PM
Online via YouTube livestream

Lexicon Unpacked is a lecture series that seeks to unravel the meaning, usage, and context of terminologies considered as important for the history and culture of the community that uses them.

For this installment, and in celebration of Linguistics Month 2026, the UP Department of Linguistics presents two lectures from its faculty members:

Home Sweet...Ano? Bahay, Tirahan, at Tahanan
Divine Angeli P. Endriga

Abstract
This study unpacks the meanings and uses of the Filipino terms tahanan, bahay, and tirahan, all of which are closely associated with the place where one lives. Despite their close relationship, differences in their definitions, morphological structures, and contexts of use point to distinctions in the concepts they convey. The three terms are examined comparatively to identify their shared meanings and the contexts in which their uses diverge. This comparison brings to light nuances that may be overlooked when the terms are treated as interchangeable synonyms, offering a more detailed account of the ways these related concepts are expressed and used in Filipino.

Bionote
Divine Angeli P. Endriga is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines-Diliman. She has finished her BA & MA Linguistics degrees in the same institution, and is currently working on her dissertation on the verbal affixation patterns of Tagalog for her PhD in Linguistics. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of typology (structure of Philippine languages), verbal morphosyntax, language documentation, dialectology, Philippine lexicography, Filipino as a second/foreign language, translation, and cultural studies.

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Uwi: What we mean when we 'go home'
John Michael Vincent S. De Pano

Abstract
The Tagalog [tgl] term uwi, which means 'go home,' may be linked to the Proto-Philippine (PPh) reconstruction *uliq 'go home; return (something).' Its proposed cognates in other Philippine languages also contain other meanings like 'to restore,' 'to return,' 'to revert,' and 'to quit,' reflecting the history of meaning change from the oldest Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) reconstruction of *uliq 'return home; return something; restore, repair; repeat; motion to and fro' up to the [tgl] uwi 'go home.' This talk is a preliminary exploration of the possible semantic changes that have occurred in these words, as well as an initial inquiry into other semantically (and structurally?) related terms.

Bionote
John Michael Vincent S. De Pano is currently an Instructor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he also finished his BA and MA degrees in Linguistics. His research interests include language documentation, morphosyntax, Japanese language teaching, and experimental linguistics. He is a member of The Katig Collective, an initiative which seeks to advance the rights of the ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines.

31/08/2026

University Research Associate and MA Lingg student Jeff David is one of the recipients of the Graphic Salute Award during the 2026 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards held lat 27 August 2026 in Quezon City. The award is given to artists and writers who published in the Philippines Graphics Reader from February 2025 to January 2026.

Pagbati, Jeff!

University Research Associate and MA Lingg student Jeff David is one of the recipients of the Graphic Salute Award during the 2026 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards held lat 27 August 2026 in Quezon City. The award is given to artists and writers who published in the Philippines Graphics Reader from Febr...

29/08/2026

[ABSTRACT]
"In the process of extracting a meaning from a text, our eyes linger much more on some words than others, and we often reread earlier portions of the text. These disruptions to the reading process are particularly common in syntactically ambiguous sentences. What explains the difficulty presented by these sentences? One prominent hypothesis explains it as a special case of the impact of a word’s predictability (operationalized via surprisal) on the difficulty of processing the word. This contrasts with theories that attribute these disruptions to errors in the structure-building process. Earlier attempts to address this debate have been inconclusive because of small numbers of participants, coarse measurements of the reading process that are ill-suited to disentangling these competing views, and a limited range of surprisal estimates. Here, we conduct a large-scale study examining eye movements during the reading of syntactically challenging sentences, using 409 types of surprisal estimates from language models with multiple architectures and training settings. We find a stark dissociation: Early effects of syntactic disambiguation are well-approximated by language model surprisal, but syntactic disambiguation incurs a significant additional cost, reflected in an increase in rereading that is not explained by language model surprisal. We conclude that surprisal can capture routine structure-building, but not the cost of detecting or correcting errors in the structure-building process."

In the process of extracting a meaning from a text, our eyes linger much more on some words than others, and we often reread earlier portions of th...

28/08/2026

28/08/2026

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28/08/2026

FINAL CALL! Just a final reminder - the deadline for ICLDC 10 Workshop & Talk Story session proposals is August 31, so if you are planning to submit one, please do so before the end of the month.

The deadline for ICLDC 10 General Session Proposals (papers, performances, posters) is September 30.

For more information, please see our conference website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/