Teori linguistik dan penyelidikan bahasa Indonesia dalam abad ke-20

Abstract

After sketching the development of present-day international linguistics, and outlining the development of the application of linguistics in the study of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia since the 1950 's, the author argues that the future of Indonesian linguistics lies in the functionalist movement, rather than in the formalist-generative movement. He bases his argument on recent empirical studies on Indonesian languages, and on the catholic insight of the functional theories, as well as on the fact that the Chomskyan theories are forever changing, rarely empirically tested and never settled and established as a stable and unified theory. In the practice of linguistics research in Indonesia he shows that several scholars did apply Euro-American theories unconditionally. However, there are other scholars who introduced innovations, offered fresh ideas, and found new facts in the study of Indonesian languages.