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CHAPTER 2
DERIVATION OF FOUR CLASSES OF WORDS
This chapter is not intended to deal with all aspects
of morphology. Much of morphology has been discussed in some
previous works, in Asyik (1972), Asyik (1982b), and the most
recent and detailed discussion in Durie (1985). This chapter
is mainly concerned with the description and derivation of
four major classes of words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs. Since all of these are dealt with in one chapter,
the description is rather brief and illustrative sentences
have to be kept to a minimum. The main difference between
the present discussion and the discussion given in Durie is
that verbs and adjectives are treated here as two separate
parts of speech, whereas in Durie they both are considered
verbs.
There are similarities and differences between
adjectives and verbs in Acehnese. Both adjectives and verbs
can be used attributively, for example, ureueng saket 'sick
person' and ureueng dong 'the standing person.' Both saket
and dong are actually the reduced forms of relative clauses.
The full forms of the two phrases are ureueng nvang saket
'the person who is ill' and ureueng nvang dong 'the person
who is standing' respectively. (A complete discussion on
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