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ethnography, the dialects, previous works on Acehnese, a
short note on phonology, the purpose of the study, and the
organization of the study.
Chapter 2 contains a discussion on the derivations of
nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. These are necessary
because in Durie (1985) adjectives are considered as verbs.
In this grammar, adjectives are treated separately from
verbs. Therefore, the derivations of these classes of words
need to be treated again. They are relevant to the
discussion of agreement systems, which is discussed in
Chapter 4. The discussion on the derivation of nouns is a
little bit different from that in Durie (1985). Nouns are
not only derived by the infix -eun-. but also by some other
prefixes. The discussion on adverbs introduces many forms of
adverbs usually found in sentences. Many of them have never
been discussed before.
Chapter 3 contains five sections, each discusses
respectively the controversial issue of word order,
intonation, basic sentence structure, the use of the word
di, which is glossed here as SFC ("subject-focus"), and
sentence-initial nyoe 'this' and nyan 'that.'
Chapter 4 discusses the use of pronominal clitics as
agreement markers or cross-referencing. Several previous
statements both in Asyik (1982a) and in Durie (1985) are
reconsidered and some new statements are made. Subject
omission is discussed in this chapter. This is relevant here
because subject omission in Acehnese is possible due to the