THE PROCESS OF COMPARATIVE DEGREE OF ADJECTIVE IN TOBA BATAK

This work deals with the process of constructing Toba Batak comparative
degrees of adjectives, a speck of: the grammar of the ethnic language.
The method of study applied to obtain the data is hbrary research and then
compare it to the spoken forms by the educated style or standard variety and in
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The findings of the research and the educated speech on one side and the
common everyday speech fall into two categories, that is, that common
everyday speech is affected by free variation, and, on the other side, by
following the so-called standard V9.riation. This happens since in the comrnon
everyday speech of the native speakers, they use their language without ever
giving an extr::~ thought to it much like they do breathing. Speakers ~vr":~ to
imitate one anothe..- without being aware that tLc speech one is copying is also
convoluted.
ln closing> this work :dcci'IT1Pts to put tree v:1riations into their correct forms
~~~-1sed on phonological processes that leaJ to natural use of the comparative
dt;b[:.::c in the language concerned.
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