Review Essay on Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five Centuries of Philippine Scholarship
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This critical review essay is a chapter-by-chapter evaluation of a book that examines the writings of Europeans about Philippine languages from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It cites the book’s strengths, supplies counterarguments, provides clarifications, and offers background information and additional literature. The essay speaks highly of the book’s merits; it provides archival materials that many scholars ‘would otherwise have had no access to’ and offers an invaluable study on the nature, if not history, of Philippine languages. Despite the book’s many merits, the essay notes several problems with some of its claims and offers recommendations as to how it could have been improved.
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