Syntactic Variation Of Makassarese, A Member Of The South Sulawesi Group Of Language in Austronesian Great Family, Classroom Language Assessment
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- Abstract: Makassarese belongs to the member of the South Sulawesi group of the great family of Austronesian languages of Indonesia which is spoken by 2,13(1,000 (2000 census). L2 users: 400,000. Ethnic Chinese speakers. Many ethnic Chinese speak Makassar dialect as LI (Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015). Their homeland is South Sulawesi but many of them live in other provinces in Indonesia. Makassarese has two basic sentence patterns in terms of its syntactic variation, they arc SVO and VSO. In Makassarese, pronoun ‘I’ has two forms, independent pronoun ‘Inakke’ (I) and ergative pronoun ‘-ka’ (1). Makassarese speakers employ some sentence patterns and pronouns with various purposes and functions. One of the purposes is for pragmatic reasons, that is politeness, in which the Makassarese speakers use various expressions in morphosyntax (lexicon and syntax) showing their identity. Eventhough, the Makasserese speakers employ a wide variety of expressions or utterances, they arc mutually intelligible. Examples of their expressions arc: Nakke annulisi’ sura’ mange ri amma’ku ri kampong (1 write a letter to my mother in the village) and Annulisi’ka’ sura’ mange ri ammakku ri kampung (1 write a letter to my mother in the village)