query: Tagalog case marking

[Christopher Sundita]

Hi David,

I'm a native speaker (though I haven't been in the Philippines for quite a while). I've noticed this the past few years in Filipinos here in the US, in the media, and on the internet.

I do not know of any studies at the moment, though I have the impression, though I may be mistaken, that it's because texting  where brevity is important. It was quite jarring when I first encountered it... along with the use of English object pronouns in place of Tagalog absolutive ones!  For example, "ok lang me" instead of "ok lang ako." Although I hear the case marker dropping in speech, I (thankfully) have not yet heard the pronoun substitution.

I'd be happy to answer any other questions you may have.

Christopher Sundita
Senior, Linguistics
University of Washington

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, David Gil wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am interested in the phenomenon whereby, in the colloquial Tagalog
> spoken in Manila, the case markers "ang" and "ng" are sometimes omitted.
>
> Can anybody point me to references where this is discussed?
>
> Is there anybody knowledgeable who would be willing to answer some
> questions that I have about this?
>

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