WHAT MADURESE CAN TELL US ABOUT OTHER LANGUAGES AND WHAT OTHER LANGUAGES CAN TELL US ABOUT MADURESE

Abstract

There are many reasons to study a particular language. One might study a language to learn to speak that language in order to be able to communicate with native speakers or conduct business. One can study a language to learn about the culture of the people or understand their literature and poetry. One can study the grammar of a language to understand the structure of that language and compare it to the structure of other languages It is this last reason that motivates the following discussion.

Keywords

• Causative constructions
• cross-linguistic comparison
• Innateness Hypothesis
• Javanese
• Madurese
• morphology
• prolepsis
• raising
• syntax
• universal grammar
• word order.