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INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
In a cause-and-effect type sentence, the choice of lexis and grammar is crucial. This paper focuses on five nearly
synonymous Indonesian lemmas indicating effect, which are: . In
Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (the online version of the Indonesian reference dictionary used in this study),
these lemmas are described without any feature of semantic prosody. Does this mean that the prosody of these
words is not important? My study has shown otherwise. I, here, have extracted cause-and-effect sentences from
the PAN Localization Corpus (the reference corpus employed in this study). The collocates and grammatical
constructions show that the semantic prosody of hasil is flexible. However, discussion of my finding shows that
the prosody for the rest of the lemmas tends to be negative. This can be seen from statistics showing lexical
preferences for words with negative associations and negative grammatical constructions, where the effects are
negative or unexpected. This holds true for the four text types in the corpus (economy, sport, science and
international affairs). For this reason, I recommend that the KBBI development team should incorporate this
feature in the forthcoming versions of the dictionary.
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