THE AKTIONSART SEMANTICS STRUCTURE OF ‘ADA’

The issue of ‘ada’ is still being discussed among scholars although quite an extensive study had been carried out on this subject. Most scholars agree that the word ‘ada’ can function as a verb, as well as copula verb (ada + lah) which also serves the function of the word ‘ialah’. Thus, this article intends to examine the semantic classification of the word ‘ada.’ This classification will be based on the Aktionsart predicate proposed by the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). Aktionsart is a lexical class to which a verb belongs by vitue of the type of process, state and so forth, that it designates. The Aktionsart class focus on the temporal features of the verbs, namely [± static], [± dynamic], [ ± telic] and [±punctual]. Data for this study was gathered from the corpus data of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Therefore, the design of this study is descriptive qualitative that aims to study and to explain language issues. The findings of this study are that the word ‘ada’ is a state verb with [+ static], [-punctual] and [-telic] as it’s features. In addition, the verb ‘ada’ can be grouped into three sub-classes namely the state of ‘ada’ presence, possession and identificational. For the word ‘ada’ presence, this study shows that the word presence can be divided into the presence of an entity and the presence of an entity at a location (location). In conclusion, this paper explains that the semantics structure of the state predicate ie predicate’ (x, y) or predicate’ (x) can be represented by the possession, identity, entity and location.