CONTENTS
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DEDICATION I
INTRODUCTION III
PREFATORY REMARKS IV
CONTENTS IX
ORTHOGRAPHY AND PROSODY
LETTERS 1
THE ACCENTS 2
PUNCTUATION 3
VOWELS 5
SYLLABLES 5
CAPITALIZATION 5
CONTRACTIONS 7
ETYMOLOGY
PARTS OF SPEECH 6
Articles 7
Declension 8
Nouns 9
Diminutive 10
Figurative 12
Verbal 13
Compound 22
Derivative 23
Proper and Common 29
Positive, Comparative, and Superlative 32
Cardinal, Ordinal, Partitive, and Distributive 35
Collective 38
Gender 40
Number 40
Case 41
Important Observation 41
Transposition of Accents 43
Pronouns 47
Personal 47
Demonstrative 48
Possessive 50
Relative 52
Contractions 56
Verbs 57
Conjugation—Voices 58
Moods and Tenses 58
Number and Person 61
Inflections 61
Table 1.—Primitive Active 61
Table 2.—Progressive Active 61
Table 3.—Primitive Direct Passive 68
Table 4.—Progressive Direct Passive 70
Table 5.—Primitive Indirect Passive 73
Table 6.—Progressive Indirect Passive 75
Table 7.—Primitive Instrumental Passive 76
Table 8.—Progressive Instrumental Passive 78
Negative Forms 80
Interrogative Forms 82
Suppletory Verbs 84
Pronominal Form 84
Adverbial Form 84
Observation 87
Impersonal Verbs 88
Defective Verbs 88
Other classes of Verbs 89
Active Voice 90
Direct Passive 93
Indirect Passive 96
Instrumental Passive 96
Depreciative Verbs 96
Adverbs 97
Prepositions 98
Conjunctions 98
Interjections 99
SYNTAX
Subjective relation 100
Predicative relation 100
Attributive relation 100
Complementary relation 101
Adverbial relation 102
Representative relation 102
Connective relation 103
Absolute and independent constructions 103
Syntax of verbs 103
Arrangement of words 105
VIOLATIONS OF GOOD USE 105
Barbarisms 105
Foreign words 105
Foreign words unnecessarily used in Bisayan 106
Spanish words 106
Chinese words 111
English words 111
Foreign constructions 112
Foreign words necessarily used in Bisayan 112
APPENDIX
NOTES ON BISAYAN RHETORIC AND POETICS 117
Figures of Speech 117
Prose 121
Letters 121
Poetic forms 123
Versification 123
Collection of some Bisayan songs 124
Moral Poetry 124
Philosophic Poetry 125
Love Poetry 125
Sundry 126
NOTE ON FILIPINO DIALECTOLOGY 128
Words exactly the same in Bisayan and in Tagalog 128
Words with some dialectal differences 130
Differences in the vowels i, o 130
Differences k, h, l, r, d, t 131
Differences in the accent, and in the separation of the syllables 132
Transformation from a to o and viceversa 132
ERRATA 133