NOT SEXIST, NOT MYSOGINIST, and definitely NOT A MOTHER HATER.- An Attempt at MorphoSyntactics to Derive Meaning
Never thought I had to do this, but if I didn’t, nobody else probably would. Here I present a very rudimentary morphosyntactic analysis of Duterte’s swearing behaviors, and give the obvious (to me) conclusion that he is NOT SEXIST, NOT MYSOGINIST, and definitely NOT A MOTHER HATER. Since linguistics is a rapidly progressing science, the terminology I employ might be unpopular or worse, outdated. Although currently the nominative-accusative vs. ergative-absolutist axes are still popular, the opinion that Philippine languages are rendered in the passive voice is considered passe; so taking a convenient way out, I prefer the generic employment of a generic category of focus as an easy solution to the sometime contentious debate about Tagalog and Bisaya (Duterte’s native language) being as being ergative. “PUTANG INA KA” has a different meaning from “PUTANG INA MO”, although both are swear sentences. The latter is frequent among Tagalog speakers, but the first is more frequently used by n
