or neutral, perfective, imperfective, prospective and recent perfective. Mode Mode describes the speakers' attitude toward a situation, including the speakers' belief in its reality, or likelihood (Payne 1997). It describes the view of the speaker as to how the action is done. The term mode, mood and modality are often used interchangeably. There are at least six types of mode that occur in Masbatenyo: (a) indicative; (b) imperative; (c) aptative/abilitative; (d) reciprocal/social; (e) causative; and (f) distributive. Modifiers In Masbatenyo, the so-called "adjectives" and "adverbs" are similar morphologically; hence, there exists no persuasive reasons for separating the modifiers of verbs and non-verbs. Modifiers can either occur in their root forms or they can be inflected by affixes. The first type belongs to a class of unaffixed form of statives. These forms denote that the properties they exhibit are not derived from a process or those that are possessed innately by the thing being described. Examples are 'fresh (fish)' versus 'rotten', 'raw' versus 'cooked'. Affixed forms of the statives are classified according to the affix that attaches to their root forms. There are three types of affixed forms in Masbaenyo: (a) m- type; (b) hi-/ha- type; and (c) those with voice affix. The first subtype inflected for by the m- replacive affix expresses the state or attribute of the referent or entity being described, e.g., 'dark'. The second subtype, which is inflected for by the hi-/ha-, is used to describe measurements (depth, height, length), e.g., 'far'; 'high'. The third subtype is affixed with voice affix. Masbatenyo modifiers are inflected by means of affixes for four degrees of intensity: basic, comparative, superlative, and intensive. 'Chai is a kind child.' (Basic) 'Benj is more beautiful.' (Comparative) 'Karl is the fastest.' (Superlative) In Masbatenyo, intensive degree is expressed by the affix ka- accompanied by the non-obligatory particle attached to bare forms (roots), e.g. 'Tinne's voice is so beautiful.' Intensive degree may also be expressed by reduplication. ka- intensification also co-occurs with the Curu intensification. 'This rice cake is very sweet.' Adverbial properties in Masbatenyo are rather expressed by clitic particles such as 'already', 'still', 'really', 'reportedly', etc. Pronouns In Philippine-type languages, pronouns replace the full noun phrases in a clause. Pronouns, however, do not take the place of nouns in most expressions (e.g. > , not ), but do so in oblique phrases (e.g. 'to the child' > 'to him/her.' There are five important