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Florida Atlantic Undergraduate Research Journal

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Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

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Article

Abstract

Tagalog and Hiligaynon are both languages from the Philippines that use the unique Philippine-style topic marking system. This system illustrates a special relationship between the verb and the subject or object through an affix marking focus. Tagalog is well-studied, but there is much debate on its voicing system. Hiligaynon and its voicing system are understudied. This paper explores the voicing system in both languages to better understand their similarities. Tagalog and Hiligaynon have related voicing systems, however, Tagalog uses five voices, separating the beneficiary and locative voices, while Hiligaynon has four, combining these two voices into the referential voice. Even though the systems in the two languages are comparable, more research should be undertaken to better address how affixation used in each language can carry multiple pieces of information, and semantic ambiguities in the verbs and noun phrases can lead to problems when counting the voices present.

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Michael Hamilton

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