Repetation of Personal Pronouns in Taba Language

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10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_34How to use a DOI?

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repetition; personal pronouns; Taba language

Abstract

Taba language is one of the regional languages in North Maluku Province. This language belongs to the Austronesian language family. The last condition of the vitality of this language is threatened with extinction. So far, the study of the linguistic microstructure of the Taba language has not been carried out in its entirety. Therefore, this study is very important, in order to document local languages whose functions are protected from the threat of extinction. In addition, this study is a study of lexical cohesion that aims to determine the form of repetition of personal pronouns in Taba (BT) or known as repetition of epizeukis. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The research data are words or morphemes that contain pronoun elements that are attached or stand alone in verbs, prepositions, and nouns. The source of data in this study is written data written directly by native BT speakers on the WhatsApp group “Waigitang Tit” social media. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the repetition of the first, second, and third personal pronouns, both singular and plural. The singular first pronoun is yak ‘I’ and the plural first person is tit ‘us’ and am ‘we’; the second person singular in the form of the word meu ‘you’ and the second person plural in the form of the morpheme h or the word si ‘you’; and the third person singular is the morpheme i ‘he’ and the plural third person is the morpheme l ‘they’ and the morpheme ni ‘-his’ (enclitic).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mujahid Taha
AU  - Ratnawati
AU  - Dedy Ari Asfar
AU  - Prima Hariyanto
AU  - M. Asri B.
AU  - Ahsan Yunus
AU  - Hugo Warami
AU  - Awaludin Rizal
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/27
TI  - Repetation of Personal Pronouns in Taba Language
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural (ICLC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 387
EP  - 395
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_34
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_34
ID  - Taha2023
ER  -