Eusabinus Bunau
Abstract
This research is aimed to identify and describe morphemes and allomorphs applied in
nominal affixation process of Bidayuh-Somu Language. The research is field linguistics
implementing recording technique to collect the data. Utterances containing nominal
morphemes and allomorphs were collected from the language speaker informants and
sorted accordingly to word class. The research found that the nominal morphemes of the
language is both class-maintaining and class-changing. To form word, the nominal
morpheme is affixed to nouns, verbs, and numbers. The nominal morpheme of Bidayuh-
Somu Language comprises prefix, infix, and circumfix.