Re: Perfect progressive aspect...

In a message dated 3/23/2000 5:29:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Barry_Garcia@MONTEREY.EDU writes:

<< There is also a slight change in my transcription scheme as well. When
 writing in the Latin alphabet for email, and my webpage, I do the
 following now:

 - Stress is represented by an accute accent: tandá, tánda
 - If the stressed syllable is followed by a glottal stop, I use a
 circumflex accent: tandâ. It was originally: tandá'.
 - If the stress doesn't fall on a syllable followed by a glottal stop, the
 glottal stop is represented by an apostrophe: tánda' >>

You seem to be heading back toward the old Spanish system of showing accents
(as I'm sure you know).....CVCV(C) unmarked if penultimate, accute accent if
final; since it didn't occur to them that glottal stop could be indicated
with some symbol or other, then CVCV? took circumflex if penultimate, grave
if final (or maybe vice-versa, I don't have my dictionary with me).  There
were fancy Spanish names for such forms, which I disremember.  Since CVCCV(C)
had automatic final stress , they were unmarked (can't remember about
CVCCV?).  My impression is that in modern written Tagalog/Pilipino, the
accents are omitted (?)  Anyway, since it appears Saalangal has more variable
stress patterns, your system now looks pretty good.
(Too bad about the infixes-- I liked them!)  Roger