INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN DAWAN LANGUAGE: GENERATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH
Dr. Efron Erwin Yohanis Loe, S.S., M.Hum.

Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Mentari Kupang

Abstract

INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN DAWAN LANGUAGE: GENERATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH

Efron Erwin Yohanis Loe
Mentari Foreign Language College Kupang
erinihase74@gmail.com

Abstract

The title of this article is Inflectional Morphology in Dawan Language: Generative Morphological Approach. The aim of this research is to find out the types of inflectional morphology in Dawan language, the distribution of inflectional morphology in Dawan language and the grammatical meaning of inflectional morphology in Dawan language. Dawan language as the object in this research, that used in Bijaepunu Village, North Molo District, South Central Timor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province.
Theoretical approach is used to analyze the research problems is morphology generative by Aronoff, namely ^Word Base Morphology or Lexeme Base^. The research method used is descriptive qualitative method in which the data are described by written statements and not statistical formations. The research data is obtained used the observation and interlocution method. The data collected are interviewing and recording from informants as the native speaker of Dawan language that lives in Bijaepunu language. The researcher find out three types of inflectional morphology in Dawan language, namely affix /n/, /in/ and /sin/, they are using in noun and verb. The using of affix /n/, /in/, and /sin/ that follows with deletion and displacement of phoneme. Affix /n/, /in/ and /sin/ have a function as suffix and they are categorized into bound morpheme.
The result analysis of the third inflectional morphology /-n/, /-in/ and /-sin/ in Dawan language shows that, the grammatical meaning of these affixes display of plural meaning when they are added to lexeme base and it is to describe the object and the action is doing more then one and more then times.

Keywords: Morphology, Inflectional Affix, Suffix, Dawan Language.

Topic: Humanities