Valency Patterns in Indonesian

DOI

10.2991/klua-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

causative, locative, valency, valency pattern, verb

Abstract

Every language has a verb category. Verbs can be classified in a number of different ways. For this study, the classification used is based on the number of the elements needed by a certain verb in order to build a grammatical sentence. The element which is required by a verb is termed valency. The verbs Indonesian are generally classified into: affixless and affixed verbs. For the affixed verbs, the base form can be: adjectives, nouns, ‘precategorials’ or even verbs. The focus of this study is to discuss valency patterns and their alternations in Indonesian using a list of 70 meanings proposed by Malchukov and Comrie (2010). The result of the study showed that the attachment of the suffix -i and -kan to the base form mostly produced locative-causative pattern alternations. The result of this study is relevant not only to the understanding of the theoretical aspects of the valency alternation, but it is also useful as the theoretical basis for compiling valency dictionary for Indonesian.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ketut Artawa
AU  - Made Sri Satyawati
AU  - Ketut Widya Purnawati
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Valency Patterns in Indonesian
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 78
EP  - 82
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/klua-18.2018.11
DO  - 10.2991/klua-18.2018.11
ID  - Artawa2018/07
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