The Contrastive Analysis of Inchoative Aspect of Japanese and Indonesian Language

Elizabeth Ihan Rini,B Warsito,Sudarno Sudarno,T Triadi Putranto

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202020207078

Abstract

Compound verb –dasu in Japanese language, adverb mulai (start), and adverb baru (just) in Indonesian language are marks of inchoative aspect. This research aims to describe the difference and similarity of those three marks of inchoative aspect. The method applied in this research is intralingual padan method. As the result of the research, it is proven that compound verb –dasu and adverb baru are focusing on the beginning of an activity or alteration, meanwhile adverb mulai (start) is a sign of the beginning of an event with an exact finished oriented. Compound verb –dasu, adverb mulai (start), and adverb baru can be constructed as activity verb and punctual verb, both volitional and non volitional with animate and inanimate as the subject. Then, the differences are compound verb –dasu shows the beginning of an event that happens suddenly, meanwhile the adverb mulai (start) and baru (just) do not; beside, the adverb mulai (start) can be modified as stative verb, adjective and noun, meanwhile compund verb –dasu can not.

Highlights

Japanese and Indonesian language have a special system in expressing time in a sentence
In Japanese language the inchoative aspect is identified by gramatical category in morphological form, for example in compound verb -hajimeru, -dasu, and –kakeru and in sytaxis form, such as in –you to suru; in Indonesian language it is identified by lexical component in the form of adverb mulai and baru
As the result of the research, it can be concluded that –hajimeru is a marker of inchoative aspect to identify the beginning of events in general; compound verb –dasu is an identifier for events or activities that start suddenly; the compound verb -kakeru as an identifier of the activities that will be begin

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Introduction

Japanese and Indonesian language have a special system in expressing time in a sentence. In Japanese language the inchoative aspect is identified by gramatical category in morphological form, for example in compound verb (fukugou doushi) -hajimeru, -dasu, and –kakeru and in sytaxis form, such as in –you to suru; in Indonesian language it is identified by lexical component in the form of adverb mulai (start) and baru (just). This can be a difficulty to Japanese language learner in applying the time identifier in Japanese language which can be various. The difference between the previous study and this newly conducted study is this research will only be comparing one compound verb –dasu of inchoative aspect marker with inchoative aspect of Indonesian language with adverb mulai (start) and baru (just) as the markers

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