NOUN CONSTRUCTION IN BIMANESE

Bimanese is an interesting language to observe because it is located in the area between two types of languages, namely an affixed language and an unaffixed language (Satyawati, 2010, p. 2). With such conditions, of course Bimanese will have characteristics in both languages. From several studies (Arafik (2007), Jauhari (2000), Owens (2000), and Satyawati (2010), studies related to noun constituents have not been studied.The results of previous studies focused more on general syntactic studies, especially on syntactic relations and the valence of Bimanese, even though it is really very important to observe each Bimanese constituent so that the speakers can describe Bimanese grammar gradually. For the first phase, the research will observe the nominalizer of the language. Functional Grammar by Kroeger (2005) and some concepts from Van Valin and Dixon will be applied to analyze the collected data. The theory used is related to theory of noun. It is hoped that the aim of the research- to find out the nominal system in Bimanes if it is similar to Indonesian- can be known. Method used to collect data is elicitation method completed with recording and note taking technique, while for analyzing data distributional method and equivalence method are applied. The results of the study will show the forms of nominalizer whether they are morphological or syntactical marker.