Aspects Distribution in Actor Focus of Talaud Language

Distribusi Aspek pada Fokus Pelaku Bahasa Talaud

Abstract

This study aims to describe the form of actor aspect in the focus of Talaud language. Focus refers to a person (more than one) or all living beings, both animals and plants, who can do something and have an impact. In other words, actor focus refers to the speaker's attention to the syntactic-semantic relationship between predicates and nouns to explain who or what is the actor behind. This research uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. The population used is native speakers over 30 years old with qualified speaking skills and good mastery of the target language. Mahsun's (2005) Simak method was used to collect data, while Subroto's (2007) Distributional method was used to analyse language data that showed indications of aspectual use in the focus of the actor. This study centres on the morphemic process in predicates. Predicates in Talaud language are usually filled by verbs and the results of word-forming tools such as affixes and re-forms. For the purpose of analysis, the researcher describes the types of verbs (which function as predicates in sentences) in order to see the morphemic process that results in the substitution of nouns to certain parts of the sentence. After passing the analysis stage, six types of aspects that affect the formation of the actor aspect were found, namely inceptive, progressive, perfective, affirmative inceptive, affirmative progressive and sesative. This research shows the disclosure of focus grammatically. Every syntactic function such as noun and adverb can be substituted due to the morphemic process in the predicate.