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Wh-Constructions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian

초록

This thesis examines wh-constructions in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (CJI). There are over 700 languages spoken in Indonesia with various dialects and Bahasa Indonesia or Indonesian as its lingua franca. This thesis will focus on the dialect spoken in the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, which is known as the Jakartan dialect or colloquial Jakartan dialect or Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian. CJI is widely used not only in Jakarta, but also all across the country; and slowly overshadows the use of Standard Indonesian (SI) which is the formal form of Indonesian. CJI and SI themselves share a few similarities in terms of the lexicon, however there are significant differences between SI and CJI, including the verbal prefixes for active voice and the wh-construction which will be discussed in this thesis. In SI, the wh-phrase appears at the left edge of the clause whereas in CJI, the wh-phrase remains in-situ. There has been some research in regards to wh-construction, mainly covering SI, including Sato and Yuliani (2008) and Cole et al. (2005). In this thesis, the data will be classified into wh-phrases which move to the scopal position, wh-in-situ, nominal wh-phrases, adverbial wh-phrases, and islandhood. The analysis will show that nominal wh-phrases in CJI are licensed by unselective binding, which is not sensitive to Subjacency; and adverbial wh-phrases in CJI undergo LF movement, which is sensitive to Subjacency. Moreover, the data will also show that CJI lacks multiple wh-questions.

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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Purpose of Thesis 1
1.2 Layout of Thesis 2
CHAPTER TWO BACKGROUND 3
2.1 The Language Indonesian 3
2.2 Wh-Constructions 5
2.3 Prior Research on SI and CJI 9
2.3.1 Sato and Yuliani (2008) 9
2.3.2 Cole et al. (2005) 12
2.4 Methodology 17
CHAPTER THREE WH-CONSTRUCTIONS IN CJI 19
3.1 Wh Moving to Its Scopal Position 19
3.2 Wh-in-situ 20
3.3 Nominal Wh-phrases 21
3.4 Adverbial Wh-phrases 22
3.5 Islandhood 23
3.5.1 Relative clauses 24
3.5.2 Adjunct islands 25
3.5.3 Wh-islands 27
3.6 Summary 29
CHAPTER FOUR ANALYSIS 30
4.1 LF Movement and Unselective Binding 30
4.2 Watanabe (1992) 37
4.3 The Analysis of CJI Wh-in-situ 39
4.4 Multiple Wh-Questions and Wh-Islands in CJI 42
4.5 Summary 44
CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION 45
References 46

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