Prosodi: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol 12, No 2 (2018): Prosodi

Varian Structure And Meaning Of The Word "Tokoro" In Japanese Language Sentences

Nani Sunarni (Padjadjaran University)
Jonjon Johana (Padjadjaran University)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Nov 2018

Abstract

The word ‘tokoro’ as a noun in Japanese, is lexically equivalent to the word "place" in Indonesian, as in the phrase suzushii tokoro "cool place". This word in Japanese has a structure and meaning that varies depending on the words followed and those who follow them. The method used as the basis of the analysis is the desktiptif method. The sources of data used form of sentences which contain the word tokoro,  also analyzed based on studies of form and meaning. Based on the results of the analysis, it was identified that the word tokoro besides having a lexical meaning, also had a grammatical meaning. Grammatical meaning can be found in pseudo nouns (keishiki meishi) and as compound particles that function as conjunctions (setsuzoku joshi). Tokoro as a structure verb keishiki meishi (~ ru, ~ te iru, ~ ta tokoro) which shows time. Whereas setsuzokujoshi has a structure (1) V (~ ta) tokoro de, V ~ ru / ~ te iru dokoro dewanai, N dokorodokoroka ~ mo nai, adverbial/ particle case of tokoro ga and auxiliary particles (fuku joshi) tokoro.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

prosodi

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

PROSODI: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra is biannual peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Faculty of Social and Cultural Science, University Trunojoyo Madura. The journal encourages original articles on various issues within Language and Literary Studies, which include but are not ...