MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY ON VERBAL INFLECTIONAL AND DERIVATIONAL PROCESS IN SASAK LANGUAGE

Abstract

This study was meant to identify the affixes which occur thorough inflectional and
derivational process in SLND and to identify the verbs which occur through zero derivation.
This study deals with a qualitative research. The techniques were used to collect the data
through observation, interview, and recording. The data were taken from native speaker of
Ngeno – Ngene dialect in Apitaik village. The obtained data were then analyzed through
distributional method and equal method. It showed that there are eleven types of affixes
dealing with inflectional process of verbal construction, as follows: three types in terms of
prefixes (e.g. {N-}, {ta-},{be-}), two types in terms of suffixes (e.g.{-aŋ}, {-in}), and six types
in terms of circumfixes (e.g. {N-aŋ}, {ta - aŋ}, {N-in}. {ta-in}, {be-an}, {ke-an}). In addition,
There are seven types of affixes which occur through derivational process such as {N-
},{be-}, {-aŋ}, {-in}, {ta-aŋ}, {ta-in} and {N-aŋ}. Lastly, it is also found that there was a
changing process of word class catergoy (e.g. Noun → Verb) without adding particular
affixes categorized as a zero derivation.