Western Subanon Grammar

Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse properties of the language. Special attention is devoted to the salient grammatical features of Western Subanon, including symmetrical voice, relative clauses, ellipsis, and scope. The volume also makes available numerous examples online through Kaipuleohone, the digital linguistic archive of the University of Hawaii.

Sharon Bulalang, received her PhD in Linguistics (2020) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She received her Master’s of Arts in Education degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman (2012), and her Bachelor of Elementary Education from the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (2002). She is a native Western Subanon, and was a grade school teacher in her homeplace (Malayal, Zamboangae del Norte, the Philippines). Her publications appear in the Oceanic Linguistics, The Archive, Language Documentation and Conservation, and John Benjamins Publishing Company.