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Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
[Contact Language Library 62] 2025
► pp. 51–204

Chapter 3
A variationist sketch grammar of Lánnang‑uè

Article outline
  • Introduction to the chapter
  • Orthography
  • Lexicon
  • Phonetics and phonology
    • Phoneme inventory
    • Phonotactics
    • Tone and stress
  • Elements in the noun phrase
    • Determiners
    • Classifiers
    • Quantifiers
    • Pluralization
    • Numerals
    • Interrogatives
    • Adjectival modification
    • Comparative constructions
    • Superlative constructions
    • Approximation
    • Negation
    • Adverbial modification
    • The pronominal system
    • Inflectional affixes and clitics
    • Derivational prefixes
  • Elements in the verb phrase
    • Modality
    • Aspect
    • The ability suffix -dit
    • Causative markers
    • Benefactive markers
    • Directional markers
    • Resultative marker
    • Negation
    • Adverbial modification
    • The copula
  • Clause-level constituent order
  • Questions
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
    • Coordinating conjunctions
    • Subordinating conjunctions
    • General patterns & summary
  • Interjections
    • Discourse particles
  • Lánnang‑uè innovations
  • Summary and insights
  • Notes
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