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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN ENGLISH AND MADURA LANGUAGE

University of Islam Malang, 2018

The purposes of this research are to compare the pronoun in English and Madurese language. The method of this study is a descriptive qualitative method. The participants in this research are from 4 different Kabupaten in Madurese Island which has a good education and have been living for more than 10 years. The researcher collects the data from interviewing the participant to get the data and also the researcher took the data from a book with already ISBN to get the data for English pronoun. for analyzing the data the researcher took five steps, namely: 1) understanding the data, 2) looking at how all informants responded to each question, 3) organizing the data into categories, 4) identifying patterns and connections within and between categories, and 5) interpreting the data. This study finds that there are many difference and similarity between Madurese language and Indonesia language.

A Study on the Behavior of Cebuano Pronouns in Discourse

Concentric： Studies in Linguistics, 2013

Sometimes reference grammars are limited in space and time and thus cannot always describe some given aspects of a language very accurately. Linguistics studies certainly help to fill this gap. Using narrative and conversational data, this paper attempts to accomplish this and aims to contribute to Cebuano linguistics and the study of pronouns by looking at two phenomena involving pronominal expressions in Cebuano discourse. First, I will show that two third-person pronouns never co-occur in the same clause. In transitive clauses with two human participants, only one will be referred to using a pronominal form; the other one will either be in zero form, if more topical, or in lexical form, if less topical. Second, I will investigate the factors that lead to a choice between the genitive form and the possessive form in expressing the Actor participant in a transitive event clause, identified as definiteness, verb type, and structure of the verb complex. The use of a possessive form w...

The The Syntax of Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language

International Linguistics Research

This article aims at describing the syntactic properties and distributions of Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language, a language spoken by approximately 9000 people who inhabit the eastern part of Sumbawa Island. This number of speakers does not include those who live in Reo Pota Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara. The Bima Language is grouped into Sumba-Bima Subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) branch of Austronesian Language. Data in this study are the linguistic units from morphems level to clausal level. The data were taken from conversations and monologues recorded in the real situations in which the Bima Language is used. The focus of this paper is to describe the personal pronoun system of the Bima Language, describing types of personal pronouns and their syntactic properties and distributions. Based on the analysis, the Bima Language has a set of morphologically independent personal pronouns (full pronouns) and a set of clitics. Both sets of personal pronouns show the same...

The Syntax of Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language

International Linguistics Research, 2020

The Multidimensionality of Cebuano Pronominals - Avenues for a Qualitative Investigation

International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2021

The study explores the properties of Cebuano pronominals in written discourse. Using Cebuano texts that are accessed online as its corpus, close textual analysis was done that aimed at determining the position of the pronouns in the clauses of written discourse. Findings reveal the dynamic nature of Cebuano pronominals in relation to the other morphological elements preceded or are followed by them. First, if the pronoun is attached to the verb, the position of the personal pronouns changes depending on the affix attached to the verb as the affix functions to denote the time the action was taken by the agent. Second, in terms of syntactic structure, Cebuano and English pronouns are similar. Third, the syntax of the personal pronouns is relative to the morphological unit these are attached to. In the case of a negative clause, deletion of the verb the initial pronoun follows is observed. Fourth, Cebuano pronominals are context-dependent rather than gender-determined. In sum, the findings open interesting avenues for students in Applied Linguistics to further investigate. For one, these observations may be explored individually using qualitative mechanisms of analyzing Cebuano pronominals and how they spell power relationships. Additionally, a contrastive analysis may be done between Cebuano pronominals and other Asian or Indo-European languages.

Cebuano-Bisaya Utterances of Grade 2 Pupils

Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra

This paper aimed at clarifying and further establishing the Cebuano – Bisaya language through a descriptive analysis of the Cebuano-Bisaya utterances of Grade Two pupils from Don Bosco Technology Center during their Mother Tongue class. Moreover, the study determined the Typological Linguistic Universals by Greenberg (1963) applicable to Cebuano, Tanangkingsing’s (2009) Nonverbal clauses, and Pesirla’s (2010) Verb Predicate forms and Content Words existent in the utterances. The study was a descriptive analysis of two regular classroom sessions or two 40-45 minute class between the Mother Tongue teacher and 45 pupils who were all boys. Interesting results were found such as the use of only three kinds of nonverbal clause, the dominance of nouns in their utterances, the existence of all kinds of verb predicates, and the application of 3 out of 6 typological linguistic universals. The results were taken from a teacher – pupils discourse under the supervision of the said academe. Keywo...

Contrastive Study of Personal Pronouns in English and Spanish

2020

This study was conducted to describe simmilarities and dissimilarities of the uses of personal pronouns in English and Spanish. A contrastive and descriptive research were carried out to find and to analyze the data. The study findings show that there are some simmilarities of the uses of personal pronouns in English and Spanish. Both English and Spanish have the same function as nominative, occupying the subject, and as accusative occupying the function of the object. The dissimilarities are on the fact that on Spanish, most pronouns have a gender, namely ; masculine and feminime and Spanish has pronouns in addressing anyone whom we respect, someone that older than us, someone whom we meet for the first time the second person singular and plural in the formal form. Proonoun in different position in spanish has the same form, Spanish does not have the specific forms for neuter gender

The Variation of Indonesian First Person Pronouns by Indonesian-speaking Children

Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019), 2019

This paper discusses the variation of Indonesian first person singular pronouns which is related to the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence. The question to be addressed in this study is: to what extent the pronouns are used by Indonesian-speaking children? This study aims to describe the use of saya and aku by children in formal and informal situation. The main data of this study is children's speech, obtained from individual interviews in formal and informal situations. Participants in this study are kindergarteners (N=28) and elementary school children (N=29) whose school is situated in South Tangerang. It is found that there are several variations of self-reference in children's utterances, including saya and aku. It is also found that children in this study are more familiar with aku than with saya. It is also indicated that the children are still learning to use appropriate pronouns in appropriate situations.

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