KONJUNGSI DALAM KITAB YOSUA

Abstract

                                                    ABSTRACT

      The title of this research is “Konjungsi dalam Kitab Yosua”. It is written to identify, classify and analyze the forms, functions and meanings of conjunctions in The Book of Joshua in The Bible. The method that is used in this research is descriptive method and the data of conjunctions were taken from The Book of Joshua in The Bible. The data have been analyzed by using theory of Aarts and Aaarts (1982) and Quirk and Greenbaum (1999). The result of this research shows the forms, functions and meanings of conjunctions in The Book of Joshua in The Bible. The forms that have been found namely coordinating conjunctions that consist of and, or, for, but and subordinating conjunctions that consist of that, if, as, because, until, when, where, after and before. The functions that have been found are coordinating conjunctions connect sentences, phrases and words, and subordinanting conjunctions connect sentences, clauses and phrases. The meanings that have been found are coordinating conjunctions express sequence of ideas, one clause/idea as a result of another, alternative combination, sequential implication, unexpected contrast and express affirmative to what is stated negatively in the first section, and subordinating conjunctions express clause and sentence that express reason or purpose, effect of something that will happen, statement which express something that is being mentioned, reason, something that is happening, point of something that happen, place of something that happen, something that happen later at a time and express the meaning earlier than the time of event.

⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺⸺

Keywords: Conjunctions, Forms, Functions and Meanings, The Book of Joshua