MEANING-EXPLICATIONS OF VERB ‘SEEING’ IN LIO LANGUAGE

I. D. Koroh, Lanny ( Universitas PGRI NTT)

LINGUAL: Journal of Language and Culture
Vol 3, No 5 (2015)

This study proposes a new perspective in analyzing the state verb seeing in Lio language, Flores. The verbal data was collected by field-observation, and interview. The collected data was analyzed through the application of Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory (NSM) designed to explicate all meanings. It turns out that the state verb: Kile ‘see’ has various types of lexicon explaining the different meanings in various forms