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Wessels, Joosje (2018)

The functions of the particle ka in Alorese, a language of eastern Indonesia

Bachelor thesis | Taalwetenschap (BA)

The aim of this thesis is to describe the functions of the particle 'ka' in Alorese, an Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia, and the sentence constructions in which it is found. This thesis is an empirical study that makes use of real language data. In order to investigate the functions of ka, a FLEx and ELAN Alorese language corpus was used. The data used in this study consists of six recordings of the Frog Story collected from six participants from the Alorese villages Alor Kecil, Alor Becar, and Dulolong. Though the results are still preliminary, this thesis provides a base for more research on the particle ka and contributes to the description of the Alorese language.

Alorese

Austronesian language

Indonesia

clause structures

connective particle

conjunction particle

complementizer

Author

Wessels, Joosje

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Taalwetenschap (Beschrijving)

Supervisors

Moro, Francesca R.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en