ABSTRACT
For many years, people have been discussing the potential relationships, intersections, and tensions between language structures and gender in different ways. This paper focuses on the collocational and grammatical behaviour of two nouns in Sundanese denoting woman as used in the corpus of Manglè magazine. The corpus comprises of texts taken from Manglè published between 1958 and 2013. This paper examines collocational and grammatical tendencies between a node and its collocate where the node acts as a subject or an object of a sentence. In this paper, the analysis only focuses on two Sundanese nouns denoting woman and view them as the node of collocational constructions. This study approaches Sundanese corpus data from the Romaine perspective that looked at sexism in language through collocational and grammatical evidence (Romaine, 2000). By taking this approach, this analysis allows us to reveal deeper information about sexism in language through collocation behaviour between a subject or an object and the surrounding words. The result shows that pamajikan tends to co-occur with words that are semantically related to family and women’s submissive quality, while wanoja tends to co-occur with words that are semantically related to independence.
