Morpheme {buN-}: an Example of Morphological Process  through Affixation in Bidayuh-Somu Language

Bunau, Eusabinus; Yusof, Rohani Mohd

doi:10.21512/lc.v12i2.3962

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“…The composition of the consonant cluster is mostly between nasal and voiced plosive consonants, creating nasal homorganic consonants in word syllables. This finding is in line with the verbal nasalization process in the Bidayuh Somu Language (Bunau & Yusof, 2018), in which the nasalization results in double homorganic nasal consonants.…”

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Phonological Distinctive Features of the Ribun Dayak Language: The Phonemes and Word Syllables

Simanjuntak,

Bunau

2023

Lingua Cultura

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The research aimed to discuss the distinctive features of the Ribun Dayak language. The description of the features was essential to foster the language for future preservation, revitalization, and development. Moreover, the research focused on descriptive analysis of the language’s phonemes. The Ribun Dayak speaks the Ribun language and inhabits sub-districts Tayan Hulu, Parindu, Bonti, and Kembayan, district Sanggau, West Kalimantan. This indigenous language is vital for thousands of speakers residing in a broad zone. In effect, the language needs to be scientifically and linguistically described in terms of phonology through the research. The data collection technique was an interview and recording, and the data collecting tool was the Swadesh lexicostatistics recorded from informants using a voice recorder. Analysis of the data collected signifies that the distinctive features of language’s phonemes are vowels, diphthongs, consonants, and semi-vowels. The vowels are /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, and /a/, and the diphthongs are <ai> and <au>. Moreover, the consonants consist of plosive, fricative, nasal, trill, and lateral, and the semi-vowel comprises /w/ and /y/. Some phonemes are consonant clusters and compounds. The onset consonant clusters are /mp/, /nt/, /nc/, and /ŋk/, while the codas consonant clusters are /nt/ and /ŋk/. Furthermore, the consonant compounds are /m-p/, /n-t/, /n-c/, /ŋ-k/, /n-s/, and /h-w/. The research also identifies three consonants with two allophones, namely /p/ with [p] and [p’], /t/ with [t] and [t’], and /k/ with [k] and [k’] while the rest only have one. The compound consonants of the language indicate phonologically conditioned interactions with asymmetrical features, which is only with voiceless consonants.

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Phonological Distinctive Features of the Ribun Dayak Language: The Phonemes and Word Syllables

Simanjuntak,

Bunau

2023

Lingua Cultura

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“…It means the nasal is replacive and additive to the first phoneme of the root. Regarding replacive and additive nasals, Bunau and Yusof (2018) furthermore specified:…”

Section: Replacive Nasals and Additive Nasals And Allomorphsmentioning

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Nasal verbalization of the Kanayatn Dayak Language

Bunau

2022

SiELE

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This research aims to study the feature of nasals in the Kanayatn Dayak language, spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and whether they are replacive or additive to particular initial phonemes of the root. The data were collected by recording and interviewing five informants of 45-55 years old native speakers of Kanayatn Dayak. Through the descriptive linguistics approach to describe the linguistic features of the nasals, this study revealed that the feature could be both replacive and additive, depending on the initial phoneme of the root word the nasals enter. These replacive and additive nasal verbalization processes function as class-maintaining and class-changing based on the root class to the nasals attached. As a replacive, the nasal verbalization process replaces the first phoneme of the root with nasals /m-/, /n-/, /ŋ-/, and nasal /ɲ-/. As additive verbalization, it is added to first phoneme of the root by employing allomorph /ma-/ and alternant /m-/, allomorph /am-/, allomorph /an-/ and alternant /n-/, and nasal /ŋ-/ and allomorph /ŋa-/. The replacive nasal verbalization makes the first phoneme of root covert. It is replaced with the replacive nasals. Then, the additive verbalization process maintains the first phoneme of the root staying overt. As a result, these additive nasals also create double homorganic-nasal oral consonants at the first phoneme of the verbs. The verbalization process involving additive allomorph only maintains the first phoneme of the root staying overt. In complex word formation, nasal verbalization creates active transitive and intransitive verbs.

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“…Affixation process is a process that attaches affix to FM (Bunau & Yusof, 2018). The FM is root or base with its part of speech or word class that is verb, noun, adjective, and adverb.…”

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English Inflectional Morpheme: Drill to Word Formation

Bunau

2024

JEFLE

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It was found out that the students have difficulties in differentiating English inflectional morpheme, that is suffix /-es/ and /-s/, to indicate tense for verbs, and plurality for nouns. Other inflectional suffix to mention is /-ing/, /-ed/, /-d/, /-er/, and /-est/. The objective of this study is to improve students comprehension on inflectional affixation as one of word formation processes by implementing drill technique that is extended drill, or substitution drill. The drill was supported with practicing inductive and deductive approach. The drill and the approach were administered during two cycles of classroom action research. The participant of the research was 86 students taking the subject of Introduction to English Linguistics. This study found out that the students comprehension on inflectional affixation of word formation improved gradually from cycle 1 to cycle 2 because of the implementation of the substitution drill that alternately practicing inductive and deductive approach.

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Morpheme {buN-}: an Example of Morphological Process through Affixation in Bidayuh-Somu Language

Cited by 7 publications

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Phonological Distinctive Features of the Ribun Dayak Language: The Phonemes and Word Syllables

Phonological Distinctive Features of the Ribun Dayak Language: The Phonemes and Word Syllables

Nasal verbalization of the Kanayatn Dayak Language

English Inflectional Morpheme: Drill to Word Formation

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