THE ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY ON SUNDANESE INFIX -AR- AS PLURAL MARKER
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2020
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Solid State Technology Volume: 63 Issue: 3
Abstract
This research is focused on Sundanese language spoken by more than 30 million of Sundanese
people, an Austronesia ethnic group in West Java and Banten province which is located at the western part
of the Indonesian island. This ethnic group deals mainly with the morphological typology of Sundanese
infixes. The objectives of this research, however, are 1) to find out the kinds of Sundanese infixes showing
plural markers, 2) word syntactic categories using Sundanese infixes that show plural forms, and 3) the
meaning of the words analyzed. The main data sources of this qualitative research are taken from both
books and written information that already existed about the language studied and sources originating from
native speakers of the language studied (Mallinson and Blake,1981). The results of the research show
that 1) there three kinds of Sundanese infixes -ar-, -um-, and -in-, while -al- is the allomorph form of infix -
ar-, and the only Sundanese infix showing plural marker is - ar-, 2) the syntactic categories of the words
using Sundanese infix are Noun (N) as in budak (child)→ barudak (children), Verb (V) as in bobo
(sleep) → barobo, Adjective (Adj.) as in geulis (beautiful) → gareulis and Adverb (Adv.) as in di jero
(inside) → di jarero, 3) The grammatical category of -ar- infix refers to number showing plural
marker, and the grammatical meanings of -ar- occurred to Noun (N), Verb (V), Adjective (Adj.) and
Adverb (Adv.) are respectively plural (Noun), many persons who (Verb), many person who are (Adj.)
and many persons who are (Adv.)
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Sundanese, Morphology, Typology, Plural Marker, Infix