Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Vol. 16, No. 1

"Kasi" and "bikin"; Two causative strategies in Melayu Tenggara Jauh (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia)

van Engelenhoven, Aone (Unknown)

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Publish Date
30 Apr 2015

Abstract

This paper discusses the causative constructions found in Melayu Tenggara Jauh 'Far Southeast Malay' (MTJ), which is used as lingua franca in Southwest Maluku. MTJ encodes causatives by means of MTJ features four periphrastic constructions with the verbs bikin 'do/make' and kasi 'give' that signal whether or not the CAUSER (Kemmer and Verhagen 1994) is involved in or has control over the caused event.

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publication:wacana

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Universitas Indonesia

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

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Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. It invites original articles on various issues within humanities, which include but are not limited to philosophy, literature, archaeology, ...