Ebook: Una gramática descriptiva del chabacano de Ternate

Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2011. - 352 p.Esta investigación está dedicada al chabacano hablado actualmente en Ternate. El chabacano de Ternate (CT de aquí en adelante) tiene aproximadamente 3 000 hablantes en la municipalidad de Ternate1, provincia de Cavite, que está situada en la Bahía de Manila, Filipinas. El CT no ha sido documentado anteriormente y existen muy pocas fuentes literarias de esta lengua que, principalmente, es una lengua hablada. El objetivo de este estudio es ofrecer una descripción sincrónica de la gramática del CT, a la vez que una documentación de la lengua.
This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Ternate Chabacano, a Spanish-lexifier Creole spoken by 3.000 people in the town of Ternate, Philippines. The dissertation offers an analysis of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic system of the language. It includes an overview of the historical background, the current situation of the speech community and a collection of annotated texts. Ternate Chabacano shares many characteristics with its main adstrate language Tagalog as well as the dialectal varieties of Spanish. At present, English also exerts an influence, nevertheless mainly affecting its lexicon. The description offered is based on fieldwork conducted in Ternate. Spoken language collected through thematic interviews forms the main type of the material analysed. Information regarding the informants and text types is included in the examples.