Unsur Fonologis dan Morfologis sebagai

Penanda Jender dalam Bahasa Indonesia

Agustina Dewi S.

Jurusan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Sastra Universitas Jember

Jalan Kalimantan 37 Jember 68121

a_setyari@yahoo.com

Abstract

This article is aimed to describe phonological and morphological lingual units used as gender marker in the Indonesian. Data is taken from written text and collected by the use of simak (observation) method. Analysis is completed with synonamous and agih (immediate constutuents) method. Result of the analysis shows that gender in the Indonesian usually is marked by phonemic and morphemic units. Gender marker in the form of phonem are phonem /a/ and /o/ for masculinity and phonem /i/ for femininity. Gender marker in the form of morphem are suffixes {-wan}, {-man}, {-in}, {-ur}, for masculinity or neutral and suffixes {-wati}, {-at}, {-ris}, {-ita} for femininity. In Indonesian, dichotomy on the masculinity and femininity markers are not found. Word majority show neutral gender, with no strict gender system, nor concord sytem.