Language Paradigm in Sundanese Pikukuh

Yayat Sudaryat

2017

Abstract

In Sundanese culture, there is Sundanese pikukuh, a set of rules on life guidance. This life guidance is a local wisdom that can be used as a reference of Indonesian nation. The research was aimed at finding out and exposing language paradigm in Sundanese pikukuh as a follow-up of the previous study on traditional expressions. The research used a descriptive method and bibliographical study technique. The sources of data were in the forms of stone tablets, ancient manuscripts, and books of Sundanese traditional expressions. The data were processed using hermeneutic method with immediate constituent analysis technique. The result of the research showed that Sundanese pikukuh contained local wisdom values, both categorically and semantically bears language paradigm. Categorically, language paradigm can be in the forms of two-sided paradigm, not only in the clausa combination (S-P, P-Comp, P-Adv) but also in the phrase combination. Most of language paradigm in Sundanese pikukuh has a syntactic construction of Adj--N, that also has Adj--V, V--N, V--PrepP, N—Num, Num-Adj, and Adv-V constructions. Semantically, language paradigm has semantic relationships, such as collocative--synonymic and its variations.

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Sudaryat Y. (2017). Language Paradigm in Sundanese Pikukuh.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 527-532. DOI: 10.5220/0007170305270532


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@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Yayat Sudaryat},
title={Language Paradigm in Sundanese Pikukuh},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={527-532},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007170305270532},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Language Paradigm in Sundanese Pikukuh
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Sudaryat Y.
PY - 2017
SP - 527
EP - 532
DO - 10.5220/0007170305270532