Sundanese Complementation

Pemateri : Eri Kurniawan

SBL (Sanggar Budidaya Linguistik) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Goals:

·         To prove a complete and coherent description of clausal complementation in Sundanese.

·         To examine the extent to which existing lingustic generalization can explan the observed fact in the language.

Sundanese

·         No overt case and tense marking

a.       Amung meuli sapatu anyar.

A           AV    buy shoes new.

Amung bought a new pair shoes.

b.      Ujang nitah Amung pikeun meuli sapatu anyar.

U   AV order A    to AV buy shoes new.

Ujang ordered Amung to buy a new pair shoes.

·         Though Sundanese locks overt case and tense marking, it in cludes some(optinal) agreement between the actor DP and the predicate.

Mahmud and his future wife want a car

                  Plural

A cars wanted by ......

·         In addition to number agreement, Sundanese also instantiates limited person agreement.

Orang ketiga dalam bahasa Sunda ...+eun

·         The agreement feature set Sundanese a part from neighboring languages.

Two generalization.

·         Complementation is a universal feature of human languages( Noonan)

·         There is finiteness in Indonesia

Kana(1986) and Arka(200,2011) take the position that Indonesian, a languages typologically close to Sundanese, exhibits finiteness manifested by temporal or aspectual auxiliaries such as akan “will”

One peculiar property of temporal or aspectual auxiliaries in Sundanese the possibility for two auxiliaries to co-existin one clause.

·         Agreement = finiteness?

·         Modals= finiteness?

Modals also occurs in a wide range of syntactic contents