STUDI KONTRASTIF VERBA BERJALAN PADA SUBTIPE BERLARI DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS DAN BAHASA MAKASSAR

FARAH FADILAH. A Contrastive Study of Walk Verb in Run Subtype in English and Makassarese Language. (Supervised by Hamzah A. Machmoed and Sukmawaty)
This study aims to contrast sentences and interpretations of the meaning and the grammatical constructions of the verb walk in English and Makassarese languages.
The data from this study were taken from two sources. The English data was taken from the Corpus of Contemporary America English (COCA) while the Makassarese language data was taken from the Mangkasara Dictionary. The data were collected and analyzed using a descriptive qualitative method design.
The results of this study indicate that: 1) There is one walk verb in English under Dixon's principle and there are thirteen verbs in Makassarese; 2) Both of the languages have similarities that can be implemented in intransitive and transitive verbs 3) The verb walk found in both languages has some similarities and differences in terms of sentence construction and interpretation of meaning. 4) Walk verb in Makassarese language produce seven patterns of the structure that are VP+ADV+NP, ADV+ADJ+NP+VP, ADV+NP+VP+NP, VP+NP+ADV+NP, ADJ.P+NP+ADV VP+NP, VP+NP+NP, VP+NP.