CHAPTER 2 LITERARY REVIEW
This chapter contains previous studies and brief explanation of the theory that will be separated into some subchapters. There are five subchapters; they are previous
studies, verbs, perception verbs, semantic primes, and aspectuality.
2.1. Previous Studies
Some researchers have done good research about perception verb, Javanese aspectuality, and semantic role. For example, Mu
lyadi 2009 in “Kategori dan Peran Semanti
s Verba dalam Bahasa Indonesia” aimed to identify the verb category and the semantic structure of the verb arguments in Bahasa Indonesia. He found
semantic roles of verb, in Bahasa Indonesia, based on its time stability: state verbs, process verbs, action verbs. He divided state verbs into cognition, knowledge,
feeling, perception, volition, and possession verb; the process verbs into event and non-agentive motion verb; and the action verb into utterance and movement verb.
This finding is very good but still leaving a gap, that perception verb is under state verb so it should have similar semantic component especially [+stative]. However,
Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese are quite similar in grammatical and lexical meaning. That is why the writer tries to fill in the gap that some perception verbs
have [-stative] feature, especially in Javanese.
Other research is entitled “Contrastive Study of a Perception Verb in English and Russian:
feel vs čuvstvovat’” Rylina, 2012. This is a thesis written by Rylina who
tried to answer the questions “what is the possible syntactic structure with the verbs feel and
čuvstvovat’?, do Russian and English allow the same choice of syntactic structure with these verbs?, and how do these syntactic constructions
correlate with meaning?”. This research resulted in while feel can become a part of a phrasal verb and take the gerund or bare infinitive complementation,
čuvstvovat’ is marked by aspect and can be followed by the reflexive pronoun sebja.
Perception verbs had been analysed by Suwandi 2006 in his thesis entitled “Analisis Sintaktis dan Semantis Verba SEE dan HEAR dalam Novel
EXCLUSIVE dan THE RAINMAKER Karya Sandra Brown dan John Grisham”. His
thesis aimed to get the usage of verb SEE and HEAR as a percepion verb, so he tried to show the verb construction of SEE and HEAR in a sentence and to find the
semantic meaning of verb SEE and HEAR in a sentence. As a result, he found that the verbs SEE and HEAR in a sentence are followed by direct object or
preposition+object. Verb SEE and HEAR also cannot be used in progressive aspect because unless giving a different meaning. There is a gap in this research because
the data are limited and only available in the novel. Suwandi did not try to extend the data in another contextsituation.
The other research has been done by Astri in her research entitled “Aspektualitas dalam Bahasa Jawa di Desa Bandar Tengah Kecamatan Bandar
Khalipah” 2014. This research is discussed syntactical role of Javanese aspectuality in Bandar Tengah. Her purpose of the research is to describe syntactical
role of Javanese aspectuality and to describe syntactical role of grammatical Javanese aspectuality in Bandar Tengah. This paper resulted temporality and
modality that is composed of the usage of aspectuality expression such as uwes was; done, urung not yet, arep will, ijek still, entes just now, lekas start,
terus-terusan continuously, sedilut a moment, kerep always, biasane usually, and ujug-ujug suddenly can mark syntactical role in Javanese. Another finding is
that the grammaticality of syntactic role comes from aspectual meaning compatibility with the usage of aspectual expression in a sentence.
2.2. Aspectology
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