A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY OF UAB METO LANGUAGE UTTERED BY FATULEU COMMUNITY
ABSTRACT This thesis is entitled A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY OF UAB METO LANGUAGE UTTERED BY FATULEU COMMUNITY. The research problems of this study are what are the types and meanings of polysemy and homonymy of Uab Meto used by people living in Fatuleu. The aims of this study are to find out the types and meanings of polysemy and homonymy in Uab Meto. Descriptive qualitative method is applied in this research. The object of this study is Fatuleu especially Passi village. To collect the data the writer needed eight peoples to be sample to take record in conversation. There are two types of polysemy, namely: 1. Regular Polysemy. 2. Irregular Polysemy. There are examples for regular polysemy: A. metnah ’lie’, and ‘black’ and fatu ’stones’, ‘ battery’ and irregular polysemy like nao, fanin, poe ’go out’. There are four types of homonymy, like: 1. Same Spelling-category, 2. Same Category-different Spelling (homophone), 3.Different category-same Spelling (homograph), 4.Different Category-Different Spelling. There are examples of homonymy: same spelling-category: nahan ‘sound’ and ‘cook’, some category-different spelling: na’lot ‘hungry’ and ‘boiling’, different category-same spelling: neno ’day’ and ‘skies’, different category-different spelling: hetpoe ’clean and hepoe ‘looking’. ’The data was collect by taking recording and transcribe, then translate to English. After analyzing the data polysemy and homonymy in Uab Meto language the writer found fifty data of polysemy and homonymy , that consists of : elevant regular polysemy, five irregular polysemy, eight same spelling-category, five same category-different spelling (homophone), thirteen different category-same spelling (homograph), eight different category-different spelling.