Analisis Semantik Leksikal Dan Semantik Kalimat Bahasa Minangkabau

Abstract

This research is aimed to describe the lexical meaning and the sentence of Minangkabau language according to structural semantic theory. Although the data are based on both oral and written data, the use of the oral data is predominant. Oral data are gathered from the Minangkabau speaker language that live in Tanjung Morawa and Medan, who belong to an organisation called Badan Musyawarah Masyarakat Minang (BM3) Bundo Kanduang. Meanwhile, the written data are gathered from various Minangkabau traditional custom books written in Minangkabau languages. The data are collected by observation and recording techniques. The discussion uses the structural semantic approach which describes the materials in the linguistic frame of meaning analysis theory. The major semantic variabels investigated in Minangkabau language are in: 1. word meaning, 2. derivative meaning, 3. idiomatic meaning, 4. lexical meaning properties, 5. lexical meaning relations, 6. sentence meaning properties, 7. sentence meaning relations.