LEXIS BAGATON IN MALAY LANGUAGE CORPUS MANIFEST INTELECTUAL INTEGRITY SABAH ETHNIC COMMUNITY

This study is conducted to explore the lexis Bagaton and its applications among the Sabah ethnic languages found evident in Malay language corpus. The main focus of this paper is to study the preservation of lexis language which used to manifest the traditional customs of Sabah’s indigenous people, especially the Kadazan-Dusun community. The data were gathered from six Malay Language novels that were basically related with the Sabah Indigenous people. The texts used would be Bagaton and Mariga by Amil Jaya and Dukanya Abadi, Kukui, Dari Dalam Cermin, and Debur Menerpa by Azmah Nordin. A number of 145 lexis of the ethnic language were found to be used with the Malay Language in the data. However, in this article, specific lexical bagaton is to be selected for the analysis that was executed using the frame semantics theory postulated by Charles Fillmore (1982). Preliminary findings have shown that a linguistics based approach in particular cognitive is able to describe the semantic lexis of the ethnic language in the Malay corpus. The present lexis has carried three meanings, which are storage containers, specials and elements of trust. Lexis bagaton has acted as a symbol of family bonding, compassion, position status, and trustworthiness of the Kadazan-Dusun Indigenous peoples. The lexis bagaton can highlight the intellectuality of Sabah ethnic languages. Through lexis bagaton, the thought of Kadazan-Dusun community that adheres to tradition tradition has shown their identity. The findings have also proven that arguments in linguistic knowledge can explain the functions of lexical existence and its fairness in the corpus is due to the motivation, potential and reputation of the lexis.