dialect clearly in detail by using sentences. In addition to the informal method, I also used formal method in reporting my research with the using of signs and symbols, such
as right arrow , down arrow , up arrow , curly brackets { } , square brackets [ ] , angle brackets , etc, used to describe the components of LFG structure,
which contains c-structure and f-structure.
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CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This chapter consists of three sections. The first section presents the semantic types of Sasak serial verb constructions. The second section is the discussion of the
characteristics of Sasak serial verb constructions. The last section is the analysis and the representation of the syntactic structures of Sasak serial verb constructions.
4.1. The Semantic Types of Sasak Serial Verb Constructions
The semantic types of serial verb constructions are explained in the following discussion based on the point of view of van Staden and Reesink 2008 and Baird
2008. As explained before, van Staden and Reesink 2008: 36-46 divided eight semantic types of serial verb: motion, direction, instrument, state change, comitative,
manner, aspect, and mood. Those eight semantic types of serial verb construction are not universal. Baird 2008, for example, found six types of serial verb constructions in
her research entitled motion serial in Keo. She identified benefactive purposive, causative, cause-effect, synonymic, manner, and motion.
Moreover, Pradnyayanti 2010 found nine types of semantic types in double verb constructionsin Sasak of ngeto-ngete dialect in her research; they are: motion,
benefactive, manner, instrument, aspect, causative, locative, purpose, and synonym. The result of data analysis in this research shows that Sasak serial verb
constructions in meno-mene dialect have ten semantic types, which are motion, directional, instrumental, comitative, manner, aspect and mood, benefactive, causative,
cause-effect, and synonym. Thus, this study strengthens and becomes the completion of the previous studies.
