Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology
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Chapters (125)(click to expand)
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFATORY REMARKS
- CONTENTS
- ORTHOGRAPHY AND PROSODY
- LETTERS.
- THE ACCENTS.
- PUNCTUATION.
- VOWELS
- SYLLABLES
- CAPITALIZATION
- CONTRACTIONS
- ETYMOLOGY.
- Parts of Speech.
- ARTICLES.
- NOUNS
- DIMINUTIVE
- FIGURATIVE
- VERBAL
- COMPOUND
- DERIVATIVE
- PROPER AND COMMON
- POSITIVE, COMPARATIVE, AND SUPERLATIVE.
- CARDINAL, ORDINAL, PARTITIVE, AND DISTRIBUTIVE.
- COLLECTIVE
- Gender.
- Number
- Case.
- IMPORTANT OBSERVATION.
- Transposition of accents.
- PRONOUNS
- PERSONAL.
- DEMONSTRATIVE.
- POSSESSIVE.
- RELATIVE
- CONTRACTIONS.
- VERBS
- CONJUGATION
- INFLECTIONS.
- TABLE 1
- TABLE 2.
- TABLE 3
- TABLE 4.
- TABLE 5
- TABLE 6.
- TABLE 7
- TABLE 8.
- NEGATIVE FORMS
- INTERROGATIVE FORMS
- SUPPLETORY VERBS
- OBSERVATIONS.
- Observation.
- IMPERSONAL VERBS
- DEFECTIVE VERBS
- OTHER CLASSES OF VERBS
- DEPRECATIVE VERBS
- ADVERBS
- ADVERBS OF PLACE
- ADVERBS OF TIME
- ADVERBS OF DEGREE
- ABVERBS OF MANNER
- ADVERBS OF DOUBT
- ADVERBS OF AFFIRMATION
- ADVERBS OF NEGATION
- ADVERBS OF CAUSE
- PREPOSITIONS
- CONJUNCTIONS
- COPULATIVE
- DISJUNCTIVE
- ADVERSATIVE
- CONDITIONAL
- INTERJECTIONS
- SYNTAX
- SUBJECTIVE RELATION
- PREDICATIVE RELATION
- ATTRIBUTIVE RELATION
- COMPLEMENTARY RELATION
- ADVERBIAL RELATION
- REPRESENTATIVE RELATION
- CONNECTIVE RELATIONS
- ABSOLUTE AND INDEPENDENT CONSTRUCTIONS
- SYNTAX OF VERBS
- ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS
- VIOLATIONS OF GOOD USE
- BARBARISMS
- FOREIGN WORDS
- FOREIGN WORDS UNNECESSARILY USED IN BISAYAN
- FOREIGN CONSTRUCTIONS
- FOREIGN WORDS NECESSARILY ADOPTED IN BISAYAN
- APPENDIX
- NOTES ON BISAYAN RHETORIC AND POETICS
- FIGURES OF SPEECH
- PROSE
- LETTERS
- POETIC FORMS
- VERSIFICATION
- COLLECTION OF SOME BISAYAN SONGS
- MORAL POETRY
- PHILOSOPHIC POETRY
- LOVE POETRY
- SUNDRY
- NOTES ON FILIPINO DIALECTOLOGY
- WORDS EXACTLY THE SAME IN BISAYAN AND IN TAGALOG
- A
- B
- K
- D
- I
- H
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- S
- T
- W
- WORDS WITH SOME DIALECTAL DIFFERENCES
- ERRATA
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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