Abstract:
his study aims to identify the types and forms of interrogative sentences
in Torajanese and English and to find the differences between Torajanese and
English structurally.
This research is a descriptive qualitative research with the sample of native
speakers of Torajanese in Pangala’ Village, North Toraja Regency. The method
that the writer used is contrastive method purposed by Tarigan. Then, for analyzed
the types and forms of interrogative sentence the writer used the theory proposed
by Quirk and used Azar’s theory to find the sentence function in the form of WhQuestion.
The results of this research indicated that there were dominant difference
in language use between Torajanese and English, namely in terms of sentence
structure where the placement of the interrogative words used has a very
significant difference. For the first types namely Yes/No question the writer found
there are 8 forms of Interrogative sentences in Torajanese such as (S – P – Aux –
O), (Adj – Aux), (Aux – O – S – P – Adv), (Aux – S – P – O), (Modal – S – P –
Det), (Adv – Neg.T), (Adv – S – P - Neg.T), and (Aux – S – P – Pos.T). Then, for
the second types there are 7 forms of Wh-question such as (Wh-w – P – O), (Whw – O – S), (Wh-w – O – P – S – Adv), (Wh-w – O – Det), (Wh-w – Det – O),
(Wh-w – Modal – S – P – O), and (O – Wh-w – P). In the third types namely
Alternative question there are 3 forms such as (Wh-w – O – S – Det – Adv), (S –
P – Adj), and (Wh-w – O). Moreover, the differences from both languages were in
placing the question word, in English it always begins with an Auxiliary verb or
To Be, (Am, Is, Are, and Do, Does, Did), and Wh-word such as, Who (Indara),
Where (umba), When (piran), What (apa) , Which one (umbanna),Whose (minda),
Why (Matumbai), How much (Si pira), and How (umbasusi), in front of the
sentences. While, in Torajanese it was “Raka” which was equal to auxiliary verb,
In Torajanese, it did not always begin in front of the sentence, but begins in the
middle, and at the end of the sentence.