Configuration of Lampung Mental Clause: a Functional Grammar Investigation

A mental clause demonstrates a configuration of a senser, mental process, and phenomenon and it performs processes of sensing through five senses and thinking. Dealing with this configuration, this research is aimed at patterning mental clauses in Lampung language. Furthermore, this research is supposed to be an alternative way to preserve this endangered language. To have natural and real lingual phenomena, data were taken from two sources; a part of cultural ceremony called ‘Pepancokh’ (it is a session where someone will perform a musical poetry) and six lesson books of Lampung language. It is found that Lampung mental clauses perform three types of mental process; they are perceptive, affective, and cognitive. Perceptive configuration deals with five senses (such as nengis, ngedengi, diliyak, ngebaca), while affective configuration defines feeling (such as gering, cadang hati, suka). Besides, a cognitive configuration construes process of thinking (for examples bupiker, bayangko, ngegampangkon). It is also found that mental process is also formed through affixation process. Keywords: affective, cognitive, desiderative, mental process, perceptive