Struktur sintaksis frasa nama Bahasa Bateq
Malaysia has some distinctive speakers who can speak Austroasiatics languages. However, the number of Austroasiatics languages in Malaysia is comprised of only 18 languages (Jabatan Orang Asli, 2009). These languages are very small in numbers; therefore, this has contributed to the criticality of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Penerbitan UKM
2009
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2302/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2302/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2302/1/Vol.9_issue1_%284%29.pdf |
Summary: | Malaysia has some distinctive speakers who can speak Austroasiatics languages.
However, the number of Austroasiatics languages in Malaysia is comprised of only 18
languages (Jabatan Orang Asli, 2009). These languages are very small in numbers;
therefore, this has contributed to the criticality of these languages because they may
extinct (Benjamin, 1976). One of these languages that is experiencing the process of
extinction in Malaysia is Bateq language, which is spoken by Orang Bateq at
Perkampungan Pos Pasir Linggi, Kelantan. The total number of Orang Bateq at the
moment is only as many as 300 people. However, this study has a very narrow focus,
which is the syntactic analysis of Bateq’s noun phrase (NP). The descriptive analysis will
elucidate the noun phrase and the word order, which form the noun phrase of Bateq Further, guided with the descriptive analysis, writer will argue the syntax of the NP
structure of the Bateq language using the X-bar theory framework (Chomsky, 1986).
Resulted from this analysis, the writer will put on view the adjunction structure of
Bateq’s NP |
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