Syukur Saud, Sukardi Weda
In this paper we examine the notion of syntactic variation of English and German as a great family of Indo-European languages or as a West Germanic languages. The paper (a) compares and contrasts the complex predicates of English and German; (b) gives detail explanation of the word order in English and German. This study focuses its investigation on syntactic variation in English and German, specifically complex predicates. The method of contrastive queries based on the constituent order in a sentence and its features. The corpus and constructions from the two languages were analyzed based on a comparative study paradigm (CSP) which focuses its investigation on constituent structure of the sentences in English and German. The research concludes that even the sentence construction of English and German is different in a clause, but almost all complex predicates (resultative, make-causative, perceptual report, verb locative, to dative, and double dative construction) appear in English also appear in German, except verbparticle. Verb-particle appears in English but it does not appear in German. © 2019 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia; English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
