Abstract
One of the processes of word formation is reduplication which words or morphemes are repeated. This study focuses on reduplication in Jamee language. This descriptive qualitative study aims at finding out forms of reduplication and the meaning contained in the reduplication in Jamee. The data were collected through ethnographic interview by recording ten native speakers of the Jamee language who live in Labuhanhaji sub-district, South Aceh. They were chosen through purposive sampling. A total of 261 reduplication words were obtained during the interviews, and they were analysed using three stages; data reduction, data display and data verification. Based on the results of data analysis, it was found that there are four types of reduplication in the Jamee language: full reduplication, partial reduplication, lexicalized reduplication, and affixed reduplication. The study also shows that reduplication in Jamee language can be in the forms of verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and pronominals. Despite previous studies show that there is no infix in the Jamee language, hence it does occur in this study even though it is rarely used in this language. It is assumed that it may have come into the language through the borrowing from Bahasa Indonesia.
Highlights
Jamee, one of regional languages in Indonesia, is a native language of the people who live in some regencies in the province of Aceh, including South Aceh regency, Northwest regency and West Aceh regency
Based on the results discussed above, it can be concluded that the Jamee language has four types of reduplication, namely full reduplication, partial reduplication, lexicalized reduplication, and affixed reduplication
As the data have been discussed, it showed that full reduplication is the most common type of reduplication in Jamee language
Summary
One of regional languages in Indonesia, is a native language of the people who live in some regencies in the province of Aceh, including South Aceh regency, Northwest regency and West Aceh regency. Jamee language has four dialects, i.e. Tapaktuan dialect, Samadua, Susoh and Mereubo (Abdullah et al, 1991). Jamee language is similar to the Minang language in terms of lexical item (Yunisaridewi, 2014). One of the rarely-investigated language features of Jamee language is reduplication. It is a morphological process (Aziz et al, 2019) where a part or the complete word is copied to the base form with a “slight phonological change” Reduplication has two main types; total and partial (Khanzan & Alinezhad, 2010). These two types are different by the way they are formed. Total reduplication is when the whole word or root is repeated while partial reduplication occurs when a part of a word is repeated (Nadarajan, 2006)
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