Rais, Maisarah Muhammad
(2013)
An Analysis Of Theta Roles Of Verbs In The Mah Meri Language.
Masters thesis, Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut.
Abstract
The Mah Meri language, one of the severely endangered languages of Malaysia is
facing the threat of extinction. In order to save valuable information and heritage, this
research focusses on the Theta Roles in relation to the verbs in the Mah Meri language.
Using Radford's (1997 & 2009) approach in analysing Theta Roles and the verbs, this
study explores the interview data ofa Mah Meri native speaker. Two main ideas which are
thoroughly examined in this thesis are the Theta Roles and the structural entity of verbs
and their related parts ofspeech in order to understand the sentential constructions. Thus,
in the primary research question, the Theta Roles examined are the Agent, Theme,
Experiencer, Benefactor, Instrument, Goal and Locative. These Theta Roles are examined
in relation to the verbsfound in the data ofthe study ofthe Mah Meri language. The second
research question addresses the structure of verbs found in the Mah Meri language. In
order to fully understand the verb structures, the morphological entities of affixes such as
prefixes and suffixes are studied. Moreover, the word order of the sentential constructions
are also analysed according to actives and passives. This is done in tandem with analyzing
the pronouns in relation to the placement ofverbs in a Mah Meri sentential construction. In
short, this thesis aims to document the language of Mah Meri in order to preserve the
language heritage ofMah Meri.
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