Batata Construction of Cia-Cia Language in Traditional Medicine

Batata is one of the mantras lyrical aspects that lexically can be understood, and its contextual meaning is based on necessity. Batata in traditional medicine has not been conducted yet. It is one of the various linguistic aspects. The researchers presented deals with the morphosyntactic construction of batata in traditional medicine for all the diseases in Burangasi Rumbia Village. The main objectives of this research included formulating and analyzing types of morphosyntactic batata in the Cia-Cia language. This research used a descriptive qualitative research design that employed a distributional method in data analysis with the underlying theories of morphology and syntax. The research informant took the data directly when he acted in inpatient treatment several times. This research found that batata construction was always filled by morphosyntactic characterization, including actor prefixes and aspect marking. It can be formulated morphologically and syntactically and includes (1) actor prefix + verbs consisting of na-, no-, mupa-, nu-, pi, ma-, and mo-; (2) Verb + suffixes consisting of -no, mo-, sie- and -e. Imperative sentences were filled by subject of pindongo ‘hear’, and compound sentence include, [if+ S + (nu-) P (-isie) + Pel] [S + P(-isie/e)], [If + P-(no)] [S + P (-isie/e)] [S + P(-isie/e)] [S + P(-isie/e)], [If+ S(-no) + (nu-)P(-no) + O(sec) + Pel] [P + Pel],    and [If+ S(-no) + (nu-)P(-no) + O(ana) + Pel] as a main clause followed by S₁ [Ø+ P(-e) + Pel],  S₂ [Ø+ P(-e) + Pel], S₃ [Ø+ P(-e) + Pel], S₄ [Ø+ P(-e) + Pel]. The last, semantic reference was filled by psychological meaning.