LEXICAL CHANGE WITH REFERENCE TO SOCIAL CONTACT AMONG THE SPEAKERS OF PASE DIALECT

The aims of this study were to analyze the types, the pattern and the reasons of lexical change with reference to social contact among the speakers of Pase dialect. The subjects of the study were personal document of Pase dialect written text in Language Department of Aceh. Observation, interview were used to obtain the data. The findings of lexical change with reference to social contact among the speakers of Pase dialect was found 505 lexicons, where lexical loss were 154 lexicons, the percentage of lexical loss of noun (75.32%), adjective (12.34%), and verb (12.34%). In lexical borrowing found 177 lexicons, the percentage of lexical borrowing of noun (78.53%), adjective (15.25%), verb (5.09%), and adverb (1.13%). In phonological change were 155 lexicons, the percentage phonological change of noun (89.68%), adjective (6.45%), verb (2.38%), and adverb (1.29%). In semantic change were 19 lexicons, the percentage of noun (68.42%), adjective (10.53%), and verb (21.05%). The patterns of lexical change with reference to social contact among the speakers of Pase dialect were potential loss for lexical loss, lexical borrowing found loan-words, loan-blend, loan-translation. The patterns of phonological change were lenition, fortition, vowel and syllable structure, syncope, apocope, and epenthesis. In semantic change, the patterns were narrowing, extension, figurative use, and pejoration. The reasons of lexical change of Pase dialect were cultural development, social factor, religion, and foreign influence. The change of lexical among the speakers of Pase dialect occurred in the pattern of relationship between the speakers of Pase dialect and another language users.