Directional in the Balinese language

• Ida Ayu Agung Ekasriadi, I Ketut Artawa Faculty of Language and Arts Education, IKIP PGRI Bali, Indonesia Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia

Abstract

This article aims to investigate directional in the Balinese language via the reflective-introspective method. The analysis of data was done applying the distributional method. As a result, apart from the adjective beneng/menang, the preposition used to express direction in the Balinese language is the preposition ka ‘to’ and uli/uling ‘from’. In conclusion, semantically in the Balinese language directional is used based on five variables; they are the mount-sea pivot, points of the compass, the agent’s goal, and the agent’s physical position/object of the sentence