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Folklore is a literary genre that has been passed down through centuries and is particularly cherished by the Iban community. The reason for this is that the Iban community uses folklore as a kind of entertainment. The majority of previous academics have shown a preference for analysing folklore from many perspectives. For instance, in terms of enhancing one's vocabulary, incorporating new words, parts of language arts, instructional worth, and similar aspects. Nevertheless, the focus on sentence building in Iban folk stories is not as prominent as the emphasis on word order. The objective of this study is to determine the word order in sentence building and evaluate the structure of sentence construction in the folklore of the Iban community related to the element of black magic. Data analysis is carried out using the Minimalist Programme. Acquisition of research data based on field research that covers two methods, namely the library method and the unstructured interview method. Gathering of empirical data from field research was carried out in Sri Aman, Sarawak, in Kampung Abok Pulau Batu. The methodology employed in this study is the technique of data recording and transcription data by translating the Iban language into Malay. The data was acquired via the method of oral tradition and interviews conducted with three native Iban speakers, aged around 40 years and above who have experience with folklore. The research analysis reveals that the Iban language exhibits four different sentence structures: Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), Object-Verb-Subject (OVS), and Verb-Object-Subject (VOS). This study has discovered novel evidence indicating the existence of past tenses, absorption and novelty in the Iban language. Thus, from a minimalist perspective, this study can add to the theoretical explanation of word order in the Iban sentence structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
