Transitivity of Sensory Verb in Indonesian

This paper discusses the transitivity of sensory verb in Indonesian. This verb is sufficiently productive and analytical in its morphological process. The structural approach is used as to explain the transitivity of sensory verb in Indonesian. This research is conducted under three methodological procedures. They are a. collecting data, b. analyzing data, and c. displaying the result of the data analysis. The distributional method is used to analyze the data. On the data collecting, the method used is observational technique whereas in analyzing the data, the method used is distributional one using grammatical test, and the result of the analysis is presented using both informal and formal method. Owing to the research already done, thus, it was found that the sensory verb in Indonesian may undergo various morphological processes. Such morphological processes bring about implication to both categorical change and grammatical functions. Focusing upon the verbal features of sensory verb in Indonesian, it seems that Indonesian belongs to agglutinative language. This might be proved that 1. Indonesian is an affixed language, 2. The affix could be segmented with an obvious boundary of free morpheme and bound one, and 3. The morphological process on the verb brings about the change of grammatical relation or the verb transitivity that is prefix Vtr. + ma- in which ma- ‘nominative-accusative’, suffix verb Vtr. - (k)an ‘causative’, and prefix Vtr. di- ‘passive’