Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The thesis summarized here is a description of the Pondok Tinggi dialect of Kerinci, an Austronesian language of Indonesia.The name Kerinci refers to a broad Malayic dialect continuum spoken in the Kerinci area of Sumatra, whereas Pondok Tinggi (henceforth, PT) refers to the specific dialect described in this thesis.The monograph focuses on the characteristics and distribution of its most salient grammatical phenomenon: phrasal alternation.Phrasal alternation is so called because most words in PT exhibit an absolute (henceforth, A) and oblique form (henceforth, O), which differ in the shape of their final-syllable rime; their distinction is conditioned by the position of a word within a phrase.The terms absolute and oblique were introduced by Steinhauer and Usman (1978) and had been taken over by later researchers working on Kerinci varieties (Prentice and Usman 1978;Mckinnon 2011;Ernanda 2011Ernanda , 2015Ernanda , 2016)).The forms have also been called Pausal and Non-Pausal (Van Reijn 1974) and 1
Author: Ernanda Ernanda
Institution: Universitas Jambi
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2763048122