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...Show moreThe 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.Show less
