[An-lang] Searching for a Tagalog/ Filipino corpus

Laurie Reid reid at hawaii.edu
Fri Apr 12 22:29:59 UTC 2019


I should have given his full name Curtis D. McFarland. His dissertation was
on Bikol and he published extensively on other languages as well.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 6:22 AM Laurie Reid <reid at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Curt McFarland who published extensively on Tagalog verbs and other
> structures had a large corpus of Tagalog texts. I don't know where or if it
> is available. Curt retired with his wife several years ago from his
> professorship at Waseda University in Tokyo, and is living somewhere in the
> outskirts of Manila. I no longer have his email address or where he can be
> contacted. Any help from anyone would be appreciated.
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:44 PM Tom Payne <tpayne at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
>> You may want to look at https://corporaproject.org/. It contains a small
>> corpus of Tagalog texts (4000 words), but is heavily weighted towards
>> regional languages. I'm copying Voltaire Oyzon who is doing a corpus based
>> lexical study of Waray as his dissertation. The two of you may have
>> research interests in common.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom Payne
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* An-lang <an-lang-bounces at anu.edu.au> *On Behalf Of *Ekaterina
>> Baklanova
>> *Sent:* Friday, April 12, 2019 01:40
>> *To:* an-lang at anu.edu.au
>> *Subject:* [An-lang] Searching for a Tagalog/ Filipino corpus
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> could anyone help me in my search for an accessible corpus of the Tagalog
>> language (Filipino)?
>>
>> I need it for my studies on the Philippine lexica, and I've only found
>> Palito which seems rather scarce and unbalanced (and is not accessible
>> anymore) and a Filipino corpus on Sketch Engine which is large but seems to
>> be a bit mixed with English lexica due to the heavy impact of the news
>> publications containing fragments in English.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there any other Filipino corpus available for an individual researcher?
>>
>>
>>
>> Respectfully yours,
>>
>> Ekaterina Baklanova
>>
>> IAAS of Lomonosov Moscow State University
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>
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> Lawrence A. Reid
> Researcher Emeritus
> University of Hawai`i
> Honolulu
> HI
>
> Research Fellow in Linguistics
> National Museum of the Philippines
> Manila
>
> Home address (abbreviated):
> Minoo-shi, Osaka, Japan
>


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Lawrence A. Reid
Researcher Emeritus
University of Hawai`i
Honolulu
HI

Research Fellow in Linguistics
National Museum of the Philippines
Manila

Home address (abbreviated):
Minoo-shi, Osaka, Japan
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