The Syntactical Structure of Mandarese and English; A Contrastive Analysis = Struktur Sintax Bahasa Mandar dan Bahasa Inggris: Analisis Perbandingan

Awaluddin. 2020. The Syntactical Structure of Mandarese and English; A Contrastive Analysis (Supervised by Noer Jihad Saleh and Harlinah Sahib).
This research aims to analyse 1) the categories filled the structure of simple sentence in Mandarese and English language, 2) the structure of simple sentence of Mandarese and English language formed.
The method used in this research is qualitative description by using interviewing, recording and note taking techniques of data collection, the population of this study consisted 20 informants of native speaker of Mandarese. Technique of analyzing data by Characterization to note the structure characteristic of Mandarese and English, classified the data both English and Mandarese were separated into structure and category in syntactical analysis then the classified data were analyzed by applying Verhaar’s syntactical principles that shown the differences and similarities of syntactical structure based on structure and category.
The result of this research shows that subject in Mandarese and English are filled by category of noun, pronoun and demonstrative, predicate in Mandarese and English are filled by category of verb, adjective, noun, object in Mandarese and English are filled by category of noun and adverb in Mandarese and English are filled by category of preposition phrase and adverb. The structure of Mandarese and English language have similarities and differences pattern.
Keywords : Syntactical Structure, Mandarese and English, Contrastive.