Passive and Antipassive in Sasak

Abstrak

This paper deals with the constructions of passive and
antipassive in Sasak Kuto-Kute dialect (SKD) related to
valency decrease. The study involved 70 verbs proposed by
Malchukov and Comrie (2010) and applying the theory of
typology linguistics from Dixon (2012) for data analysis. The
finding showed that passive in this dialect can appear in
three forms: the use of morphological marking (confix ke- -
n), syntactic marking (preposition siq ‘by’) and no markings
at all. For the last form, the construction can only be
detected through the movements of the arguments with the
case being limited to A with singular pronouns (ku ‘I’, diq
‘you’ and ia ‘s/he’), and first plural pronoun (kami ‘we’).
The syntactic passive marker in SKD is very productive and
more common compared to the morphological marker. As
for antipassive, in this dialect the construction was found to
be formed only through morphological markings, which
involved the use of nasal prefixes such as meny- and me- and
confix ng- -ang as the AP markers.