THE USE OF UNIQUE BOUND MORPHEMES IN MALAY LANGUAGE OF MAKASSAR DIALECT

All languages have unique morphemes as distinguishing features from other languages. Uniquemorpheme is a morpheme with typical features divergent from other morphemes or languagemorpheme in general. This study aims to explain the unique morphemes in Malay Languageof Makassar dialect. The finding is useful for linguistic studies especially morphologicalstudies of morphemes. This study used descriptive method data collection method used waslistening method. The techniques were listening and engaged in conversation and notes-taking.The role of researcher in listening and engaged in conversation technique was not only aslistener but also took part in the conversation. In note-taking techniques the researcher recordedthe conversations from the research objects. The results found that the The Malay language ofMakassar dialect has unique morphemes, such as ka, ta, nu, ki. Na, ko-, etc. Unique morphemesin form of words are such as pale (only), sedeng (again), bela (that’s it), and so on. More uniquemorphemes of particles are mine-, ji-, pi-, pa-, mo-, etc. Using these unique morphemes beforewords would make different in sense of the words from using them after words.