Gay Language Morphosyntactic Anatomy: A Tandaganon Sociolect

Abstract

This study claims that there is an internal variation of the gay language as a sociolect, from its internal etymologies.  This paper had an aim to identify the morphological processes of the gay language; analyses the affixes formed in the gay language in terms of nouns, verbs, and adjectives; identify the basic structures/patterns of the gay language; analyses the structure of the gay language; and identify the language variety of professionals, non-professionals, and non-gay users of the language.

The study found out that the morphological processes of the gay language are allusion, creative letter reversal, creative suffixation, internal syllabic retention, language phrasing, letter retention, letter substitution, lexical adoption, past tensing, reversal/jumbling, rhyme association, syllabic duplication, syllabic substitution, and total syllabic distortion.

The affixes formed in the gay language in terms of nouns are ating, che, chenes, ching, d, er, ever, ification, in, ing, ingsing, is, iting, lin, ling, ring, and sing.  In terms of verbs, the affixes formed are alin, che, ching, d, ed, elin, ever, ga, gi, gikyupi, han, i, ing, ipa, ipan, ka, ma, mag, maka, mu, nag, nagpa, pag, paga, and pagka.  In terms of adjectives, the affixes formed are che, chenes, d, ed, ever, in, ing, ious, kyu, lin, pagka, and y.

The basic structure/patterns of the gay language are Subject-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object, Subject-Adjective, Verb-Subject, Adjective-Subject, and Adverb-Subject-Adjective.

The gay language possesses distinct characteristics in terms of their basic structure or observable patterms namely Subject-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object, Subject-Adjective, Verb-Subject, Adjective-Subject, and Adverb-Subject-Adjective.

 The language variety of professionals, non-professionals, and non-gay speakers is determined by their registers, lived experiences, and language etymology.

The social experiences of the gay language speakers define the creativity and depth of their construction.  The wider their social experience, the more unique and complex their utterances may become.