Constituent Order of Clauses in the Bima Language and Its Typological Indication

This article aims at describing the constituent order and its indications to linguistic typology. The Bima Language is used as the object to describe the constituent order and to give the language its typological indications. The data in this article were taken by elicitation with the speakers until the elicitation is fed up. The analysis begins with assessing the clauses of the Bima Language syntactically involving several constructions in order to get the main patterns of constituent orders and its alternations. After that, the analysis continues to the explanation of the marking system of the cross-reference in the language in order to get how the language give marks on the predications and or on the arguments. Finally, the analysis comes to draw the typological indication of the combination of the patterns may have that of whether the Bima Language is to have an indication of accusative or ergative. Based on the analysis, it was found that the patterns of constituent orders of the Bima Langauge is the combination of S-V-O, O-V-S and V-O-S which indicates accusative. In addition, the pronominal clitics are always marked in S and A not in O