Relasi Gramatikal Klausa Bahasa Dawan di Desa Uabau, Kecamatan Laen Mane, Kabupaten Malaka

Abstract

his research is entitled “The relation of clausa gramatical of Dawan languange in Uabau village, Laen Mane sub-district, Malaka regency. Dawan languange that public speaker call it “uab meto†is the biggest local languange of Timor Island with the number of speakers 3.183.000.The result of a study of this languange is still limited, especially research in the field of syntactic. That’s what prompted the writer to use the theoretical framework and analysis based on lexical functional grammar.The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the basic structure of the verbal clause, non-verbal clause and also to identify grammatical relation contained in the language of Dawan in Uabau village, Laen Mane sub-district, Malaka regency.The method used in this study consists of a method of providing data, method of data analysis and method of presenting the result of data analysis.To obtain research data, the writer used elisitas technique, drag out, record, log, and see involved capably. The data were analyzed using sorting decisive element technique and dividing element directly technique.The result of data analysis is presented by formal and informal technique.Based on the result of the field research, the basic clause of Dawan language can be divided into verbal predicate clause and non verbal predicate clause.Verbal predicate clause can be filled by a simple predicate and complex predicate in the form of serialization. Dawan language has a main grammatical function i.e. SUBJ and OBJ and non-core grammatical function i.e. OBL, KOMP and ADJ.The function of SUBJ always appear in preverbal position while OBJ function appears in postverbal position.Based on the behavior sequence constituents system, Dawan langguage can be classified as VO language, the SVO and VOS. Beside that, BD has grammatical function f-structure and constituent structure (str-k)\