which a shared argument and the parts of the construction depend on each other. The OBJ of the matrix clause Side
‘You’ is the SUBJ of the subordinate clause. This serial verb construction has three serial verbs lalo
‘go’, ngater ‘send the food’, and ngerampek
‘harvest’. The syntactical characteristic of Sasak serial verb construction explained above
has similarity with the characteristics of serial verb construction cross-linguistically. As Aikhenvald 2006: 3-4 claimed that a serial verb construction may share subject or
another argument, as seen in clause 85 and clause 86.
4.3. Types of Verb filling Serial Verb
As has been mentioned that serial verb construction is a series of verbs which form predicate in a clause, it can be filled by two verbs or more. Because of serial verb
constructions filled with two verbs or more, it is very important to explain the combination. The result of analysis shows that combination of verbs which form serial
verb construction in Sasak, as shown in the following table:
Table 4.1: Verb Transitivity in Sasak Serial Verb Constructions
Combination of Verb Transitivity in Sasak Serial Verb Constructions Pattern V1
V2 V3
Example 1
Intransitive Intransitive tedem ng-alaq
lalo mancing
2 Intransitive Transitive
lalo boyaq ber-ajah ng-emi
3 Transitive
Intransitive jauk pelai
jauk meken
4 Transitive
Transitive ng-goroq...ng-
adu… nyuruq
…m-bait-an…
5 Intransitive Intransitive Transitive
lampaq be-bat mbait
…
lalo lampaq mboyaq …
6 Intransitive Transitive
Transitive dateng nenaq
… mboyaq… keleleq engat
… maleq…
Classification in Sasak serial verb based on grammatical structures in this part is discussion of serial seen from verb class. Each verb in Sasak belongs to one of three
transitivity classes: intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive. Most verbs are either intransitive or transitive, and the only one ditransitive verb of the Sasak language is
beng ‘give’.
Serial verbs structure in many kinds of sentences types of cross-language have the same tendency. Serial verbs can be side by side in a line or split. Besides that, serial
verbs can also form as incorporation and non-incorporation Durie, 1997: 330.
