LINGUAL: Journal of Language and Culture
Vol 1, No 1 (2013)

FULL-REDUPLICATION BALINESE VERBS A SEMANTIC VIEW

Sudipa, I Nengah ( Udayana University)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Mar 2016

Abstract

The full-reduplication Balinese verbs are used in everyday life, therefore they can be found in every text using Balinese. This article aims at describing the meaning of the reduplication form, such as : kituk-kituk,lier-lier. The data was taken from Balinese newspaper and analyzed by Metalanguage theory. The result showed that the reduplicated forms might mean (a) giving more emphasis, e.g.anggut-anggut,(b) done more than once, e.g. kauk-kauk ; (c) creating  new meaning since the root (the single form) does not exist in Balinese, e.g. sidapà sidap-sidap. Metalanguage manages to coherently and  systematically reveal each meaning respectively.

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