About prefix -ba in Minangkabaunese: from which the study should start

Jufrizal Jufrizal

doi:10.31940/jasl.v2i1.820

Abstract

The four layers of human language – form, meaning, function, and value – are systematically integrated in order to play the communicative functions of human interaction. It is not an easy job to explore and to explain the nature of human language as the four layers are systematically integrated in complex ways. Thus, the linguistic studies should be held in specific domains and topics by means of appropriate theoretical bases and frameworks. This paper, which is mainly inspired by the grammatical-typological analysis on prefix ba- in Minangkabaunese, particularly discusses how the language features are linguistically analyzed in order to come to logic, valid, reliable findings and conclusion. The discussion presented in this paper aims at proposing logical and reasonable ways of doing linguistic analyses on available data of language. In short, this paper deals with how to begin and to do linguistic analyses toward a group of language data collected. In this paper, the prefix ba- of Minangkabaunese is used as the example of case. The discussion presented in this paper respectively answers two main questions; (i) What should be firstly analyzed dealing with the prefix ba- of Minangkabaunese?; and (ii) How are the linguistic analyses toward the prefix ba- of Minangkabaunese logically continued?

Highlights

The development of linguistics, the branch of science that studies the linguistic matters, goes hand in hand with language development and human attention to the language
Allan (in Allan, 2016) and other experts (see eg Sudaryanto, 1985, 2015; Wray et al, 1998; Mahsun, 2005; Sharma and Podesva (in Podesva and Sharma, 2013) all languages and all kinds of languages and their attitudes attached to them are the main sources of linguistic studies and research data.The relationships and relationships between elements, structures, and other units that make up the language are fertile ground and the source of linguistic research problems that still require "Touch" of scientific scientists and observers of language
Linguistic studies or linguistic analysis requires an understanding of linguistic concepts and / or theory relating to the linguistic phenomena studied

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Introduction

The development of linguistics, the branch of science that studies the linguistic matters, goes hand in hand with language development and human attention to the language. Allan (in Allan (ed.), 2016) and other experts (see eg Sudaryanto, 1985, 2015; Wray et al, 1998; Mahsun, 2005; Sharma and Podesva (in Podesva and Sharma (ed.), 2013) all languages and all kinds of languages and their attitudes attached to them are the main sources of linguistic studies and research data.The relationships and relationships between elements, structures, and other units that make up the language are fertile ground and the source of linguistic research problems that still require "Touch" of scientific scientists and observers of language. Among the important notions of language is that language has four layers, namely forms, meanings, functions, and values, which are systematically and intricately interconnected. Layers of meaning (linguistic and contextual meanings), functions (as a means of communication, and values (the content of socio-cultural, psychological, etc.) are abstract layers attached to a certain form of language (see Finegan, 2004; Payne, 2006; Fromkin et al, 2011)

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