Open AccessVERBA NASALISASI N- (ATAU NG-?) DALAM BAHASA BALI
Author(s) -
W. A. Sindhu Gitananda
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dharmasmrti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-827X
pISSN - 1693-0304
DOI - 10.32795/ds.v16i01.67
Subject(s) - linguistics , prefix , allomorph , mathematics , nasal vowel , natural language processing , computer science , philosophy , vowel , morpheme
The Balinese has uniqueness concerning its verbs, especially those undergone the process of nasal- ization (using prefix N- (Ng-)). By this phenomenon, it is really interesting to analyze the variation of the nasalized verbs morphophonemically and their syntactic function in the Balinese sentences. Re- garding these concerns, the descriptive-qualitative method was applied. Therefore, it can be concluded that the nasalized verbs with N- (Ng-) are varied morphophonemically (having complementary distri- bution) through the allomorphs as /n-/, /m-/, /ng-/, and /ny-/. The distributions depend on the initi- ating phoneme of the stems that undergo the process of affixation. Then, the function of the nasalized verbs with N- (or Ng-) is as the nucleus of the cores or predicates to form active sentences that have maximally two arguments.