Basic Structure of the Riau Malay Clauses

This study aims to explain the basic structure of Riau Malay clauses using a linguistic typology approach. Data obtained from oral and written data. The method used is Sudaryanto (2005). discussion based on opinion Jufrizal (2012). results showed that BMR were in form (1) non-verbal whose predicates are nouns (pronouns), adjectives, numerals, prepositions which located one argument before predicate (2) verbal transitive intransitive forms. Verbs occupy position two marked morphologically with affixes some can stand alone without affixes. clause has comes (verb). There have or three arguments.