功能語法參考書通常受到地域時空等限制，無法很準確地描述語 言的所有層面，因此語言學的研究可以彌補這種缺陷。本研究利用口 語語料試圖觀察Cebuano語代名詞在篇章裡的現象。第一，同一句裡 不會有兩個第三人稱代名詞；句子如果已經有一個第三人稱代名詞， 另外一個論元要用名詞或零回指的方式來表達。第二，及物句裡決定 主事者論元以屬格或以所有格的形式表達的因素主要有特定性、動詞 種類，以及動詞詞組的結構；主事者論元移動至動詞前面時以所有格 形式表達，並且可能造成該語言詞序變化的因素之一。

Sometimes reference grammars are limited in space and time and thus cannot always describe some given aspects of a language very accurately. Linguistics studies certainly help to fill this gap. Using narrative and conversational data, this paper attempts to accomplish this and aims to contribute to Cebuano linguistics and the study of pronouns by looking at two phenomena involving pronominal expressions in Cebuano discourse.
First, I will show that two third-person pronouns never co-occur in the same clause. In transitive clauses with two human participants, only one will be referred to using a pronominal form; the other one will either be in zero form, if more topical, or in lexical form, if less topical. Second, I will investigate the factors that lead to a choice between the genitive form and the possessive form in expressing the Actor participant in a transitive event clause, identified as definiteness, verb type, and structure of the verb complex. The use of a possessive form will involve the pre-posing of the pronoun form to a pre-verb slot, which may also be a factor that contributes to word order change.