A MORPHOSEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON THE GENDANG BELEQ LEXICONS

Abstract

This study is aimed to discover (a) the types of morphosemantic lexicons related to the gendang beleq as a music band (b) the types of word formation related to the gendang beleq as a music band, and (c) the meaning built from the word formations. Qualitative descriptive is used as the research approach in presenting the data. The primary source of the data was derived from interviews with some gendang beleq players from different gendang beleq bands in Central Lombok. The data of this research are all morphosemantic lexicons related to the gendang beleq as a music band which then have been grouped, described, and analyzed according to some categories, their word formation types, and meanings (lexical and grammatical). The outcomes of the analysis show the various types of word formation found in the gendang beleq lexicons including derivation, inflection, compound, reduplication, initialism, onomatopoeia, eponym, neologism, and idiom. It is found that the affixation type dominates the lexical items in the lexicon of gendang beleq with 13 words, followed by 6-word compounds, 3-word onomatopoeia, 2-word of each reduplication and idiom, as well as neologism, initialism, and eponym with 1 word each.  Furthermore, only the words which belong to affixation that has the grammatical meaning due to each affix that is attached to the base conveys the grammatical meaning according to the base.