Mahmudah, Sukardi Weda
Since the seminal work of Greenberg, 1963 cited in Willems, et al. (2003, p. 4) constituent order has been a most inspirational research topic, both in terms of language coverage and in terms of analytical depth. The original ideas of Greenberg have been much criticized, however, especially for their reliance on the universality and cross-linguistic comparability of notions like subject, object and verb, which is called into question by numerous authors, and for the privileged status accorded to sentences with two full lexical NPs, which are not all that common in actual language use (Willems, et al., 2003, p. 4). This study therefore aims to investigate the constituent order in Indonesian and English. Indonesian is an Austronesian great family uttered in Indonesia as one of the ASEAN countries and English as a modern Indo-European languages as English as an international language (EIL) used worldwide and its existence in Indonesia as a foreign language and is a mandatory subject at school and university. The research design was qualitative paradigm in which the data were obtained from various sources, like articles written in journals and test. The test was distributed to students of English Literature Study Program, English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature State University of Makassar, Indonesia. To explore the constituent order of Indonesian and English, we adapted test made by Saud & Weda (2019). The constituent order of Indonesian and English was analyzed based on Saud & Weda’s comparative study paradigm (CSP) (2019) which focuses its analysis on constituent structure of the sentences in Indonesian and English. The research therefore concludes that notably Indonesian and English have the same construction or constituent order, SVO. © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
