INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN TORAJANESE AND ENGLISH

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.