Definiteness in Balinese temporal adverbial  

Oleh:

Purnawati, Ketut Widya ; Artawa, Ketut

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 273-277.
Topik: definite marking strategies; semantic functions of temporal adverbial; Balinese language
Fulltext: 273-277 Ketut Widya Purnawati, Ketut Artawa.pdf (244.7KB)

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Definiteness may occur in several grammatical functions realized by a noun phrase. This means that definiteness can also be found in a temporal adverbial function as this function can be fulfilled by a noun phrase. The focus of this study is on definiteness, which occurs on the temporal adverbial function in Balinese. Balinese is a language spoken in Indonesia which belongs to Western Malayo Polinesian languages of Austronesian language family. The data in this study was obtained from several short stories collection and narative texts from Balinese weekly newspaper, Bali Orti. Those data was descriptively analysed based on theory of temporal adverbial semantic functions proposed by Haspelmath (1997) and the theory of definiteness proposed by Lyons (1999). The two theories are used to analyze the definiteness in Balinese temporal adverbial. The result showed that definiteness in Balinese temporal adverbial function can be classified into simple definiteness and complex definiteness. The simple definiteness is simply marked by a definite suffix –é, which occurs in the final position of a noun phrase. The complex one is marked in four different ways as follows: (1) it is marked by a possessive suffix –né, (2) it is marked by a demonstrative pronoun, (3) it is simultaneously marked by the definite suffix –é and the demonstrative pronoun, and (4) it is simultaneously marked by the deictic temporal lexicon and the possessive suffix –né. The definiteness in Balinese temporal adverbials are mostly occur in temporal location semantic function. An interesting phenomenon found is the option of the attachment of the definite marker itself. The definite suffix –é is attached not only to the final position of an NP which served as a temporal adverbial, but it also occurs in the final position of a particular marker which marks a certain semantic function of a temporal adverbial.

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