STRUKTUR SEMANTIK VERBA MINUM DALAM BAHASA BALI

Preservation of regional languages continues to be carried out by local government, the use of the Balinese language is required to make everyone must to using Balinese Language. Not all Balinese people are able to use the excellent and correct Balinese language. Some words have a variety of meanings. The meaning studied in this study is the verb ‘minum’, which has a context meaning carried by each lexicon. The data source of this study is the Balinese-Indonesian dictionary published by the Balai Bahasa Denpasar. Observation methods and note-taking techniques were used to collect data. The descriptive-qualitative method was used to analyse the data, and the informal method was used to present the data analysis results. This study uses the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage by Wierzbicka (1996). There are fifteen verbs with the meaning of ‘minum’ in Balinese which have a prototype of action with the default meaning of doing: towards and moving. The semantic structure of the verb meaning drink in Balinese has a syntactic pattern. Natural Semantic Metalanguage X does something to Y and something happens to Y.