Analytic causative construction of Massenrempulu language in Duri dialect: A lexical functional grammar approach

This study employs the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to analyze the analytic causative constructions in the Massenrempulu language, with a particular focus on the Duri dialect. The study employs a qualitative descriptive approach to analyze unstructured interviews and observationally collected natural speech data from native speakers. The results indicate that kuanni (“command") and the verb mangkabua (“make") typically constitute analytic causatives in the Duri dialect. The event in question is denoted by PRED2, which may function as either transitive or intransitive, while the causative verbs serve as PRED1. These constructions exhibit a biclausal structure in which the embedded clause (X-COMP) extends from the object of the causative verb (kuanni or mangkabua). The typical word order observed is SVOV. This arrangement illustrates the manner in which arguments are distributed across predication structures in f-structure and c-structure, thereby facilitating complex predication. The findings, particularly concerning bilingual education and the reinforcement of cultural identity, align with typological and syntactic analyses of Austronesian languages. They also offer crucial documentation for the preservation and advancement of regional languages.