ADJUNCT ROLE IN MALAY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR

Most previous studies only analyse adjunct as an adverb in general. Research on adjunct is rarely undertaken due to the assumption that its role is less significant in sentences. However, this paper intends to discuss the role of the adjunct in detail. Adjunct is an additional element in a sentence and its presence is optional. The presence or the absence of an adjunct has no affects to the construction of a sentence structure. The presence of adjunct can be analysed from various positions in a sentence. Data for this article was gathered by intuition. Qualitative approach was applied to analyse data based on the of ‘Role and Reference Grammar’ theory. The finding reported in this article is that the adjunct can be modified at various stages in sentences whether at the level of the clause, core and the nucleus in a Layered Structure of Clause (LSC). In addition, this article also reports that the presence of adjunct in a sentence may take place simultaneously in all the three stages. Therefore, this article expends the existing corpus of knowledge on Malay linguistics, especially in the field of contemporary grammar based on Role and Reference Grammar.