LEXICAL CHANGE OF PIDIE DIALECT

This study presents a research conducted on the Lexical Change of Pidie. It employs qualitative research, the objectives of the study were to (1) investigating the lexical change type, (2) describing the lexical change patterns, and (3) explaining the lexical change reasons of Pidie Dialect of Aceh. The empirical materials were thoroughly and well-gathered from the documents and interviews. The data were analyzed by using interactive model by “miles and hubberman model. Based on the analysis, the findings in this research are drawn as the following. First, the lexical change of Pidie Dialect of Aceh comprised lexical loss, semantic change and lexical creation. Every single sort of change was figured out based on it lexical classes for examples noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Where in lexical loss found (357) lexicons, the percentage of lexical loss of noun (67.27%), verb (13.40%), adjective (16.48%), adverb (0.83%). Semantic change (19) lexicons, semantic change of noun (89.47%), verb (10.52%), adjective (5.26%), adverb was unrecognizable and not treated as semantic change. and lexical creation (128) lexicons,the lexical creation of noun (73.68%), verb (5.26%), adjective (19.29 %) and adverb (1.75%). The researcher found that the major occurrence of lexical change of Pidie Dialect were noun while verb, adjective and adverb were minor. Second, the pattern of lexical change of Pidie Dialect has been manifested on three types: (1) lexical loss : potential loss and total lexical loss (2)semantic change (3) lexical creation : Internal lexical creation and external lexical creation. Third, The reasons of lexical change of PDA : Lexical loss, semantic change, lexical creation. In educational setting the various change of Pidie Dialect of Aceh implicitly implicate that language standardization like selection, dification, elaboration and acceptance was not totally employed, consequently it bears an enormously complicated impending the success of teaching and learning of PDA to the next generation.