Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 21, No 1: June 2021, Nationally Accredited

Personal Pronoun Ngana and its Use in Manado Malay Sentence

Mandang, Ferry Hertog (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2021

Abstract

The implementation of ngana as one of the personal pronouns is found in Manado Malay language. The word ngana is often used in sentences by Manado Malay speakers. Usually, the use of the word ngana used by parents for younger people, close friends, and peers. The purpose of this study is to describe the word ngana in the sentence, the word ngana as subject in the sentence, and the word ngana as function in the sentence. This research used distributional method and the technique used is substitution or replacement, namely by replacing other units or certain elements of morphological constructs or logical phrases by other elements. The results showed that ngana in sentences can be seen from interlocutors, age, closeness, socioeconomic, education and position. Ngana can be placed in front of the subject and also behind the subject of the sentence. In terms of syntactic function, ngana occupies the function of the subject in active sentence.

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celt

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published biannually in the months of July and December with p-ISSN (printed): 1412-3320 & e-ISSN (electronic/online): 2502-4914 It presents articles around the area of culture, English ...