The Archive Regular Issue Vol. 4, Nos. 1–2

This issue of The Archive Classics features a bilingual edition of Otto Johns Scheerer’s paper titled “Sagen der Atayalen auf Formosa” [Legends of the Atayal people on Formosa], originally published by Dietrich Reimer Hamburg Boysen in its 1932 issue of Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen-Sprachen.

The Archive Regular Issue Vol. 3, Nos. 1–2

This Special Publication is dedicated to Consuelo J. Paz (1933–2022), a linguist whose works not only contributed to establishing a stronger foundation for Philippine linguistics but also became instrumental in the advancement of Filipino as the National Language of the country.

The Archive Regular Issue Vol. 2, Nos. 1–2

This Special Publication features two papers presented during the 14th installment of the Philippine Linguistics Congress (14PLC), held by the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Philippines Diliman on 24–27 August 2021.

The Archive Regular Issue Vol. 1, Nos. 1–2

This Special Publication of the journal compiles papers from esteemed scholars who have devoted much of their time in studying Philippine languages and linguistics.

The Archive Classics series reprints monumental works in Philippine linguistics that paved the way for further research in the field, and continue to influence current studies on Philippine languages.

Topicalization and Some Related Processes in Philippine Languages by Ernesto H. Cubar was originally published in 1975  as a monograph and was produced with the support of the University of the Philippines Social Sciences and Humanities Research Committee's (now the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development under the University of the Philippines Diliman) endowment of Research Allotment No. 26, FY 1973-1974. 

Deskripsyon ng ponolohiya, morpolohiya, at istruktura ng mga pangungusap sa Wikang Ayta Mag-antsi

Patnugot ng Isyu

Viveca V. Hernandez

Mga May-akda

Sherma E. Beñosa
Jay-Ar M. Igno
Divine Angeli P. Endriga
Jem R. Javier
Sergei Klimenko
April J. Perez
Francisco C. Rosario, Jr.
Maria Paz C. San Juan

A Comparative Dictionary of Tagalog was written by Franz Carl Alter (1749-1804), an Austrian Jesuit who taught at the University of Vienna. This translation, which was published in 1981, was done by Marlies Spiecker-Salazar and edited by Ernesto Constantino. The appendix containing a list of languages to which Tagalog was compared in this publication was made by Pedro A. Guasa, Jr.

The UP Department of Linguistics is currently in the process of digitizing past issues of the journal for public access.

This issue was originally published with the original German text and the English translation printed side-by-side. However, the two versions have been uploaded separately in order to make viewing the two texts easier in their digital format. 

This volume was dedicated to the memory of Otto Johns Scheerer (1858–1938), one of the founders and heads of the Department of Linguistics (then named the Department of Oriental Languages) in the University of the Philippines. The dedication page indicates that Scheerer was “Founder and First Editor of This Journal”, suggesting that the 1970s Archive was already a revival in itself.

The Foreword to this first volume of the “New Series,” written by Cecilio Lopez, lists some of the papers they had in their files; papers that were salvaged from the destruction wrought by the Second World War.

It is also in this volume that we have the article by Cecilio Lopez Some New Morphemes in Philippine Languages, appearing for the first time, and an article by Videa de Guzman Syntactic Comparison of Tagalog, Maori, and Chamorro.