Amanuban dialect of Uab Meto Yakob Metboki English Study Program of Artha Wacana Christian University UKAW Kupang jacobmetbokiymailcom Abstract In this paper I describe the expressions of quantity in the ID: 830358
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Expressions of quantity in the Amanuban dialect of Uab MetoYakob MetbokiEnglish Study Program of Artha Wacana Christian University (UKAW) – Kupang(jacobmetboki@ymail.com) AbstractIn this paper, I describe the expressions of quantity in the Amanuban dialect of Uab Meto, a dialect spoken in the South Central Timor Regency of East Nusa Tenggara province - Indonesia. The paper contains a sort of interesting expressions of quantity displayed on pragmatics examples of and their contextual uses. It is expected that the result provide one’s reference on the mutuality of the dialect and its functions by the people of Amanuban. Understanding the expressions of quantity in the Amanuban dialect is a complex task; however, semantically one may find their practical uses in the variety of discourses. The expressions stand for cardinal and ordinal numerals, fractions, addition, etc. Interestingly, some of them are adjectives but they have worth of values and function as classifiers. Those classifiers always stand after the nouns followed by cardinal number. For example: Laukhau futu mese (a bunch of cassava) Sisi noni niim (five strings of meat) Puah ki’ nua (two bunches of areca nut) Oe lanan nua (two times taking water), etc. It is obligatory to use these classifiers in order that the nouns and their entities become clearer. In certain occasions, people address the classifiers under pragmatic objectives. In summary, the expressions of quantity in the Amanuban dialect work across mathematical orders leads to semantics categorization due the contextual orders. Keywords: Expression of quantity, numbers, classifiers, Amanuban dialect of Uab Meto. Paper prepared for the 12 ICAL, Bali, 1-6 /7/12. I am grateful to Dr. Charles Grimes and Dra. June A. Jacob, MA for their motivation and guidance through the writing of this paper.