Linguistik Indonesia
Linguistik Indonesia is published by Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia (MLI). It is a research journal which publishes various research reports, literature studies and scientific writings on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, pragmatics, anthropolinguistics, language and culture, dialectology, language documentation, forensic linguistics, comparative historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, neurolinguistics, language education, translation, language planning, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics . I
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<![CDATA[VARIASI LINGUISTIK BAHASA TETUN DIALEK FEHAN: SEBUAH KAJIAN AWAL ]]>
<![CDATA[Adnyana, I Ketut Suar]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol. 36 No. 1 (2018): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v36i1.74
<![CDATA[This qualitative research focused on the linguistic variations of the matrilineal society of Tetun ethnic background in Belu, East Nusa Tenggara. The purpose of this study is to describe differences in the use of prosodic features, lexicons, and imperative sentences between men and women. The informants were determined by using a snowball sampling technique. Data were collected by means of nonparticipatory method through recording technique and interviews. The result of this study indicates that there are differences in the linguistic variations between men and women. In terms of prosodic features, women tend to lengthen a vowel sound at the end of a word. In the lexicon level, the word he’e ‘yes’ is used by men and women in formal and informal situation whereas hi’i ‘yes’ is used only by women in informal situation. In addition, there is a difference in the use of address terms. Women use mane and bo’o for boys while men use bete and bu’i for girls in addressing their children. In the syntactic level, men use more varied types of imperative sentences. The data show that although women occupy a superordinate position in the society, they tend to use more polite imperative utterances.]]>
<![CDATA[LANGUAGE AND BASIC EDUCATION IN INDONESIA ]]>
<![CDATA[John Bowden, Frederick]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 31, No 1 (2013): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v31i1.1
<![CDATA[Indonesia is a country with a great richness of local languages spoken within its boundaries – over 700 distinct languages according to Lewis, ed. (2009). Indonesia is also a rapidly developing country with growing incomes and growing educational achievement. Unfortunately, this growth in income and education is unevenly distributed across the country and significant portions of the Indonesian population are missing out on the benefits of increased economic growth and development. To a very large extent, the parts of Indonesia lagging in terms of development are the regions with the richest diversity of languages. In this paper, I argue the case for greater use of local languages in early education in the underdeveloped east of the country, not just as a means of defending local culture but also as a means towards more equitable educational achievement and economic development. I also examine some of the political issues that may be relevant in pursuing greater use of minority languages in classrooms.]]>
<![CDATA[ADAKAH KONSEP FINIT DALAM BAHASA SUNDA? ]]>
<![CDATA[Kurniawan, Eri]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 31, No 2 (2013): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v31i2.18
<![CDATA[This paper presents an argument that there are no overt morphological manifestations of finiteness in Sundanese. It also provides pieces of evidence that temporal/aspectual auxiliaries do not determine finiteness, as opposed to Kana’s (1986) and Arka’s (2000, 2011) claim for Indonesian. Nor are person agreement and modality shown to correlate with a finiteness opposition. Nevertheless, this paper argues that finiteness seems to be at work in Sundanese and that it patterns like other languages to account for the distribution of overt subjects. More specifically, it is proposed that it is the presence of an abstract [finite] feature that licenses an overt subject in a finite clause. As an implication, this establishes a clear-cut dividing line in terms of finiteness along which clausal complements are differentiated. An indicative complement clause is finite owing to their ability of licensing an overt subject, whereas raising and control complements are all non-finite due to the inadmissibility of an overt subject.]]>
<![CDATA[JAVANESE AND PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF ADVERSATIVE PASSIVE ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurhayani, Ika]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 33, No 2 (2015): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v33i2.34
<![CDATA[Adversative passive is one of the means that languages use to code that an event may have detrimental effect on someone. The adversative passive differs from the standard passive in that the speaker perceives an event as unpleasant or unfortunate. The adversity semantic effect is normally encoded with an adversative passive affix attached to the verb. Javanese has such coding with (1) prefix ke- and (2) the circumfix ke--an. However, Javanese adversative passive is not always associated with adversity. In fact, an event described by Javanese adversative passive may have neutral or pleasant consequences. This proves to be problematic for the current frameworks on adversative passives such as Kubo’s (1992) and Pylkkänen’s (2002) because their frameworks assume that an adversative passive carries an adversative semantic property encoded in the malefactive head or with a passive morphology. Moreover, the subject of the ‘adversative passive’ in Javanese does not have to possess an object because the passive can have a reading in which the passive subject held an object belonging to someone else while experiencing a situation related to the object. This also poses a problem for Pylkkänen’s (2002) because she bases her adversative passive analysis on the possessor raising theory which requires a possesive relation between the theme and the affected argument. I argue that Javanese ‘adversative passive’ is best described as a combination of the prefix ke- and suffix –an (the circumfix ke--an) with the prefix ke- carrying the accidental semantics property and the suffix –an as an applicative suffix adding an affected argument to the construction.]]>
<![CDATA[DOKUMENTASI ETNOBOTANI-LINGUISTIK TUMBUHAN SAGU: LAPORAN AWAL DARI ETNIS MARORI DI TAMAN NASIONAL WASUR MERAUKE ]]>
<![CDATA[Hisa, La]]>;
<![CDATA[Mahuze, Agustinus]]>;
<![CDATA[Arka, I Wayan]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 35, No 2 (2017): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v35i2.69
<![CDATA[This paper discusses the ethnobotanical-linguistic documentation of sago (sago Metroxylon Rottb.) in Marori. Sago is a plant of high socio-cultural and economic values for the Papuan people in general and for the Marori ethnic group in particular. Socio-culturally, sago plays a central role in everyday life: it is used in a variety of important rituals, from birth to funeral ceremonies, which involve certain social obligation and responsibility. It is the identity of the Mahuze clan. Traditionally sago has a high economic value too, as staple food. However, there has been a widespread process of acculturation and change resulting in a shift, among other things, in the consumption patterns of staple food, from sago to rice. In addition, the Marori language is highly endangered; the local indigenous knowledge related to sago (and also other plants) is also increasingly endangered. This is mainly due to external socio-historical-cultural factors that have affected and shaped the current ecology in Merauke and in modern Indonesia. The role of language is central in the intergenerational transmission of indigenous knowledge. Collaborative efforts of all stakeholders are therefore urgently needed to do language and cultural documentation, as part of the conservation and preservation of language and culture of this ethnic group. The discussion on the entholinguistics of sago in this paper addresses two related aspects, namely documentation aspects and ethnobotanical-linguistic aspects. The discussion on the folk taxonomy and lexical items in relation to sago plants and sago processing highlights rich vocabulary related to socio-cultural knowledge of sago. The paper also discusses the socio-cultural and economic significance of sago, outlining a sago-trading taboo posing a delicate problem in maximizing the economic potential of sago, and the efforts so far done to address the issues by relevant stakeholders. ]]>
<![CDATA[PEMAHAMAN KUANTITATIF DASAR DAN PENERAPANNYA DALAM MENGKAJI KETERKAITAN ANTARA BENTUK DAN MAKNA ]]>
<![CDATA[Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya]]>;
<![CDATA[Rajeg, I Made]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 37, No 1 (2019): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v37i1.87
<![CDATA[This contribution discusses basic concepts of Chi-Square (χ2) test as a kind of analytical statistics and illustrates its application to one of the central issues in linguistics, namely form-meaning relationship. As a case study using Indonesian Web as Corpus from the Sketch Engine, this paper measures the association between morphosyntactic forms of words in the lexical field of panas ‘hot’ and their (non-)metaphorical usages. The χ2 test demonstrates a highly significant and robust association between the morphosyntactic form of words with the root panas ‘hot’ and their preference for (non-)metaphorical usages. The clear effects are shown by (i) the strong preference of the inchoative form memanas ‘to become hot’ for metaphorical usage, and (ii) the strong dispreference of dipanaskan ‘to be caused to be hot’ and panas ‘hot’ for metaphorical usage. This finding has implication on the predominant semantic trait of words with certain morphosyntactic forms, thus capturing the form-meaning relationship in language.]]>
<![CDATA[MEASURING PROFICIENCY IN STANDARD INDONESIAN FOR ENGGANO SPEAKERS ]]>
<![CDATA[Rindu Parulian Simanjuntak]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 32, No 1 (2014): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v32i1.13
<![CDATA[The main purpose of study described in this paper was to measure the proficiency of Standard Indonesian spoken in Enggano Island, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. Enggano is spoken in six villages: Malakoni, Apoho, Meok, Ka’ana, Kayapu and Banjar. Of these, two villages — Meok and Ka’ana — were selected as research sites for collecting data. The instruments used were the Indonesian Sentence Repetition Test (ISRT) (Hanawalt 2008) and a set of bilingualisms questionnaire. The results show an average bilingual proficiency in Standard Indonesian of level 2 on the ILR scale (Interagency Language Roundtable 2007) for Enggano speakers, which indicates an ability to use Indonesian limited to particular situations and domains. The analysis also shows that bilingual proficiency in Enggano varies on average between males and females and is influenced by education and age, but not by the other factors investigated. This means that bilingual proficiency in Standard Indonesian for Enggano speakers is largely the result of continuing on to higher levels of education. Even though the average proficiency of Enggano speakers in Standard Indonesian is at level 2, the attitudes of most Enggano speakers towards both the Indonesian language and the local vernacular language are strongly positive.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF HEDGES AND BOOSTERS AS RHETORICAL DEVICES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPEECHES ]]>
<![CDATA[Farida Hidayati]]>;
<![CDATA[Ruswan Dallyono]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 33, No 1 (2015): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v33i1.29
<![CDATA[The present study is a pragmatic analysis of the use of hedges and boosters in the speeches of three ministers on the government’s policy of raising fuel prices during the second tenure administration of Susilo Bamband Yudhoyono (SBY). This study explores the distributions of hedges and boosters in the speeches and the pragmatic functions of those hedges and boosters. Data were obtained from three speeches delivered by Hatta Radjasa (HR), Jero Wacik (JW) and Armida Alisjahbana (AA). The theoretical framework of this study was based on Hyland’s (1998a) and Hyland’s (1998b) theories of hedging for categorizing the types of hedges and boosters and pragmatic functions. This study indicates that both hedges and boosters were used by two politicians: HR and AA with different distributions. This study confirms Hyland’s (1998a) and (1998b) findings that hedges and boosters are used for mitigating and strengthening the truth values of propositions.]]>
<![CDATA[A BRIEF GRAMMAR OF THE EASTERN ATADEI LANGUAGE OF LEMBATA, INDONESIA ]]>
<![CDATA[Krauße, Daniel]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 34, No 2 (2016): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v34i2.45
<![CDATA[This paper aims to briefly describe the grammar of Atadei, or more precisely Eastern Atadei, an under-described Flores-Lembata language spoken by about 8,000 people in Atadei District of Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Atadei is an agglutinative language with fusional elements and SVO word order. Adjectives follow the noun they modify and are inflected in attributive position, but are not inflected when used as a predicative. Atadei verbs may agree with the subject, depending on the verb class. This is similar to Lamaholot, but the verb classes in these two languages are different. Some verbs exhibit inflection for all persons, while others do not inflect at all. Pronouns follow a complex system in Atadei, depending on their syntactic function. It is noteworthy that the Alor-Pantar languages of the neighboring islands Alor and Pantar do not belong to the Austronesian language family, and may have contributed to a Papuan substratum in Atadei, such as inalienable possession and clause-final negation (Klamer et al., 2008, p. 136).]]>
<![CDATA[USING A GENRE-BASED APPROACH TO PREPARE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS FOR AN ENGLISH THESIS DEFENCE EXAMINATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ADDRESS THE ‘PEDAGOGICAL CONTROVERSY’ ]]>
<![CDATA[Iskandar Abdul Samad]]>;
<![CDATA[Zifirdaus Adnan]]>
<![CDATA[ Linguistik Indonesia Vol 35, No 1 (2017): Linguistik Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.26499/li.v35i1.56
<![CDATA[A great deal of research has been conducted on genre based approach, suggesting that it is an important approach. Its importance is also indicated by the fact that it is adopted in the 2004 and 2006 National English Curricula of Indonesian secondary schools. However, the pedagogical benefit of this approach to English language teaching is still controversial. Some research has shown that it is effective to develop language competence, some has not. The fact that since the adoption of this approach in the 2004 Indonesian National Curriculum the quality of Indonesian English language teaching at Indonesian schools has not significantly improved complicates the issue further. The present study was intended to contribute to the debate. It is an experiment to discover whether the approach can help improve the performance of students in university thesis defence examinations. The study was conducted at a university level because of an important practical issue, that is complaints among members of the academic community about the poor performance of undergraduate (UG) students in the thesis defence examination (TDE) event at Indonesian universities especially in Aceh. It was believed that even though students were competent in speaking general English, they were poor in their oral thesis defence performance. This study concludes that, with some conditions, it can help at least in some respects.]]>
