Aldrin Lee

University of the Philippines | UPD · Department of Linguistics

This study tackles the development of writing Filipino dictionaries by presenting critical review analyses of the three of the most current Filipino monolingual dictionaries published by the two most authoritative institutions of Filipino language: the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino [KWF] (formerly the Institute of National Language, then became the L...

A more holistic approach towards disaster risk reduction and management takes into account a “multicausal understanding of disasters” (Berg 2017). This holistic paradigm led to an increased involvement of the social sciences as well as the humanities in documenting and analyzing social and cultural factors that contribute to our general understandi...

The non-canonical occurrences of –ul/lul have been organized into three: (1) the one that occurs in intransitive constructions; (2) the one that occurs in the long form of negation (LFN) and (3) the one that occurs in what we referred to as NP-split constructions (including whole-part, inalienable possession and quantifier constructions). These thr...

This study explores the feasibility of Island Linguistics as a research area in the Philippines by providing case studies of what could potentially be considered as “island languages” in the archipelago. By using “Island Linguistics”, I attempt to advance the views put forward by Nash et al. (2020) and Nash, Markússon, & Bakker (2022) on the need t...

The goal of this research is to compare the negative expressions in Korean and Tagalog based on the corpus data of the Korean-Foreign Language Parallel Corpus Building Project Phase 1. First, the negative expressions are classified into different types based on previous research analyses on negative expressions in the two languages. Second, the spe...

This is a vignette about the Cuyonon word “Napuro” published online by the Living-Language-Land, a British Council-funded “platform to minority and endangered language-holders to share a word and story that reflects a relationship to land and nature.” Napuro is one of the twenty-six (26) words selected to be featured in the project. The short piece...

This preprint is a slightly revised version of a manuscript submitted as a class requirement during my Doctoral studies at the Academy of Korean Studies. I am making this publicly available for people who wish to learn about the history, development, and basic features of the Korean Alphabet in one article.

This foreword is written using both English and Tagalog in a more cohesive, less autonomous manner. This might of be of interest to those who are looking for brief sample data on translanguaging/translingual practices in formal writing.

Maintaining a balance between hot and cold is essential to the wellbeing of the Cuyonon people. Any tension between these two may cause several maladies, all encompassed by the general term pasma. Tan (1987) noted that the term pasma is recorded for all Christian groups, as well as for acculturated Muslim and tribal groups in the Philippines. Its u...

This is a brief essay about the Korean word for “bittersweet”. This is not a research article. It has been published under the “Travel Narratives” category in the journal "Asian Studies: Critical Perspectives on Asia”: https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/index.php/archive/147-asian-studies-journal-critical-perspectives-asia53-2-2017

Language is one important medium utilized to render biases against women in human society. This paper examines how pejorative naming is used to abase contemporary Korean women, focusing on the newly-coined words (sinjo-eo) that are generated to ridicule them. This paper shows that pejorative naming serves as Korean men’s rhetoric against a Korean w...

This study is both an attempt to understand the nature of Cuyonon’s non-verbal constructions, and an exploration of the applicability of Minimalist Program in describing the grammar of Cuyonon’s non-verbal constructions. Cuyonon, the language under study, is a former lingua franca of Palawan. Linguistic studies on the Cuyonon language have been sca...