00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862409065 Buklod 20210503203822.0 m | | ta 210503s2006 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00040012080 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3336 Luquin, Elizabeth author. To be in relation ancestors' or the polysemy of the Minangyan (Hanunoo) term apu Elizabeth Luquin. 2006. pages [87]-94 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 94). This article deals with the polysemy of the term 'āpu used by the Mangyan Patag of the Philippines, Minangyan language speakers. The anthropologists of the region usually translate the term 'apu as 'owner', 'master', and sometimes 'spirit possessor', 'leader'. They also define it as 'ascending kin (GEN-5, GEN-6, and GEN-7)' and stress the notions of property and ownership. And yet the problematic term 'āpu signifies more than a simple ownership relation. I will show in this article that these glosses are not entirely satisfactory. Rather than 'master' or 'owner', translations which seem to impoverish the polysemic senses, I will argue - giving some concrete examples - that the polysemy of the term 'āpu appears to imply more fundamental meanings. It turns out that we need to take into account that 'āpu means 'relation: ancestor', which organizes the relations between the living and the dead. Philippine Journal of Linguistics Vol. 37, Number 1 (June 2006), p. [87]-94. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 03 May 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3336 Analytics