KEABSAHAN PERKAWINAN SEDARAH MASYARAKAT ADAT BATAK TOBA MENURUT HUKUM ADAT

Resource claims between tradition and modernity: masyarakat adat strategies in Mului (Kalimantan Timur)

Resource claims between tradition and modernity: masyarakat adat strategies in Mului (Kalimantan Timur)

Distribution of ADAT-Dependent Codons in the Human Transcriptome

Nucleotide modifications in the anticodons of transfer RNAs (tRNA) play a central role in translation efficiency, fidelity, and regulation of translation, but, for most of these modifications, the details of their function remain unknown. The heterodimeric adenosine deaminases acting on tRNAs (ADAT2-ADAT3, or ADAT) are enzymes present in eukaryotes that convert adenine (A) to inosine (I) in the...

Infixation and Segmental Constraint Effects: Um and in in Tagalog, Chamorro, and Toba Batak

The proper understanding of infixation continues to be a matter of debate among linguists. The data presented in this paper show that infixation in Austronesian languages is not exclusively due to prosodic morphology, but instead is significantly influenced by the segmental phonology as well. Specifically, infixation may be blocked if it would create dissimilation environments in the first bimo...

Abstraction and Concreteness in Customary Practices in Malaysia: A Preliminary Understanding

This paper attempts to discuss the concept of abstraction and concreteness using two ‘adats’ (customary practices) in Malaysia namely Adat Perpatih and Adat Temenggung. Nonetheless, focus will be more on Adat Perpatih because the smaller number of practitioners of the ‘adat.’ As this is a preliminary paper, content analysis of previous research was used to facilitate discussion. Findings of thi...