Kasi and bikin. Two causative strategies in Melayu Tenggara Jauh (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia)

This paper discusses the causative constructions found in Melayu Tenggara Jauh ‘Far Southeast Malay’ (MTJ), which is used as lingua franca in Southwest Maluku. MTJ encodes causatives by means of MTJ features four periphrastic constructions with the verbs bikin ‘do/make’ and kasi ‘give’ that signal w...

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Published inWacana (Depok, Bogor, Indonesia) Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 80 - 104
Main Author van Engelenhoven, Aone
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Netherlands Brill 01.01.2015
Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
Subjects
biclausal constructions
causatives
control
involvement
language contact
leti
melayu tenggara jauh
monoclausal constructions
southwest maluku
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Summary:This paper discusses the causative constructions found in Melayu Tenggara Jauh ‘Far Southeast Malay’ (MTJ), which is used as lingua franca in Southwest Maluku. MTJ encodes causatives by means of MTJ features four periphrastic constructions with the verbs bikin ‘do/make’ and kasi ‘give’ that signal whether or not the CAUSER (Kemmer and Verhagen 1994) is involved in or has control over the caused event.
ISSN:1411-2272
2407-6899
DOI:10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.367