Gonzalez Andrew. Pampangan: towards a meaning-based description

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — 416 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 48).Pampangan belongs to the Central Luzon group of languages, one of the five language groups proposed by Kroeber (1919), who grouped the Philippine languages into five geographical divisions: North-eastern Luzon, North-western Luzon, North Central, Central , and Mindanao.
Plan of the Study: Chapter I, the key chapter, describes the semantic structures of Pampangan through specification and replacement rules developing V and its co-occurring N's. Chapter II describes the main post-semantic processes in Pampangan, again through specification and replacement rules which eventually lead to surface structures. Chapter III discusses semantic structures consisting of more than one V. Chapter IV proposes the notion of 'pre-semantic structure' to account for uses of language other than cognitive. Chapter V summarises the conclusions of the study and evaluates the descriptive power of the model through comparison of its empirical results with the conclusions of Bergano's pedagogical grammar, Lopez's survey of surface syntactic features, Castrillo's taxonomy of construction types, and Constantino's generative (phrase-structure and transformational) rules.