ANALISIS KELAS KATA OPEN DARI VERBA REST BERDASARKAN TEORI DIXON DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS DAN BAHASA BUGIS: SUATU KAJIAN KONTRASTIF

The Analysis of Open Subtype Rest Verbs Based on Dixon
Theory in English and Buginese Language: A Contrastive Study
(Supervised Hamzah. A. Machmoed and Sukmawaty).
The aims of this research were (1) To identify the kinds of Rest verbs in English and Buginese language based on Dixon‘s division of open subtype (2) To elucidate how the open subtype rest verbs found in English and Buginese language in terms of semantic and syntactic construction.
(3) To elaborate the similarities and differences of rest verbs in open subtype in English and Buginese language.
The data of this research consist of English and Buginese Language.
English data were collected from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), while Buginese data were obtained from field observation and in interview. Both of the data were analyzed with descriptive qualitative analysis.
The result of this research shows that (1) There are four rest verbs of open subtype in English, they are open, close, shut and lock, while in Buginese, there are thirty of open Subtype, they are: mallukka‟ malloro‟, mattimpa‟, makkafe‟, mallengkang, mattetta‟, mawwekka‟, pamile‟, mappale‟, massampo, ma‟bombo‟, massulu‟, mattokkong, makkaru', mappuru', mattongko‟, makkaleppu‟, makkeppa‟, mallape', majjampe', mappalang, massappo, makkafeddeng, efu‟, pasirape', mappaseppa‟,
maccala', ma‟goncing, marreppo-reppo and mappasikeppa. (2) The main differences of rest verbs in English and Buginese language based on open subtype can be seen from two aspects, clause structure and variations of the verb based on the thing resting.
Keywords: Rest verbs, semantic types of verb, the thing resting