Nominal Incorporation in Toba Batak Language

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  • Carolina Pakpahan Universitas hkbp nommensen, Indonesia
  • Mulyadi Mulyadi Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of North Sumatra, Medan, Indonesia, Indonesia

Abstract

Batak Toba Language has always been ignored as a source of Noun Incorporation. This happens because of the agglutinative nature of Batak Toba Language. This means that many words in Batak Toba Language are formed by combining several morphemes. Even so, it is possible that in fact a lot of Noun Incorporation (IN) processes occur in Batak Toba Language. This research uses Mithun and Rosen's approach in searching for Incorporation of Nouns in Batak Toba Language. The results of this study reveal that the incorporation of nouns in Batak Toba Language even though they are not productive, still occurs at level I and II. The incorporation of nouns of Mithun's ideas and also surprisingly (needs further investigation) occurs in two types of Rosen's ideas, namely Compounding Nominal Incorporation and Nominal Incorporation Classifier. This research also reveals that much incorporation of nouns in Batak Toba Language is idiomatic and according to (Mithun, 1986) this is common in several languages.

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2024-09-30

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2024)

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