Detail Voice in the Sumbawa Besar Dialect of Sumbawa   Oleh:  Asako, Shiohara Jenis: Article from Books Dalam koleksi: NUSA: Linguistics Studies of Language in and around Indonesia Volume 54: Voice Variation in Austronesian Languages of Indonesia, page 145-158. Fulltext: SHIOHARA Asako.pdf (278.79KB) Isi artikel This paper deals with the voice system in Sumbawa, a language spoken in the western part of Sumbawa Island. Adelaar (2005) classifies the language as a member of the Malayo-Sumbawan subgroup, which belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages. Malayo-Sumbawan languages, such as Malay, Sundanese, and Balinese, generally exhibit an Indonesian-type voice system, which is characterized by an opposition between actor voice and undergoer voice. This opposition underscores the pragmatic status of the undergoer and/or the discourse topic in these languages, as shown by Arka and Ross (2005). Sumbawa retains reflexes of each of the Indonesian-type voice constructions, but, as Wouk (2002) points out, they do not form an Indonesian-type voice opposition. Two grammatical devices in Sumbawa (noun incorporation and fronting of the topic NP) seem to compensate for the lack of a voice opposition. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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