A Brief Semantic Analysis on The Form and Function of Biak’s article ’ma’

Biak language, spoken by 50.000 to 70.000 native speakers, belongs the West New Guinea subgroup of Austronesian language family and is in Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya), Indonesia, which found northern part Geelvink Bay. The typology this SVO has an agglutinative pattern nouns are simple.This article aims discuss semantic function particle ma describe its form. technique used analyze data descriptive approach namely describing based on what people actually say applying morphological paradigm see potential morpheme order determine form, function, meaning. By doing so, helps classify process that inflected or not verbs other word categories. finding study shows there eight functions indicated different meanings such show desire volition, conjunction, reveal future condition, state reflexive pronoun, derive verb into noun formation, tense mood, adverbial conjunction phrasal verbs. Morphologically, two types morphemes attached bound free morphemes.