THE SEMANTIC OF INDONESIAN DATIVE ALTERNATION : A CASE STUDY IN JAWA POS NEWSPAPER

Dative alternation refers to the alternation of the double object in ditransitive sentence. The different position of objects evokes two variants which called as prepositional object and double object. In this study, I analyzed Indonesian dative alternation in Jawa Pos; 23 and 24 September 2015 as my scope. The limitation of this study is give-types verbs and send-types verb. This study investigates whether Indonesian dative alternation has one meaning or two meaning and the characteristics which restrict dative variant. The data are presented descriptively because it describes and explains the meaning of Indonesian dative alternation used. The findings show that there are give-types verb has both variants, but has caused possession meaning only. Meanwhile, send-types verb has to-variant only, but has caused motion meaning and may have caused possession meaning based on the context. This study also found the characteristic which restrict each variant. Those are suffixes (suffix me-kan in to-variant and suffix me-i in double object), hidden Agent in passive form in to-variant, and short noun phrase or clitic after give-types verb in double object. It is hoped that this research contributes important information for the next researcher who is interested in doing the same kind of study. However, it is suggested for further researchers to use other event types of dative to develop this finding and uses other theory