Open AccessVerb Conjugation in Different Languages: A Preliminary Study in Developing German Grammar Book Based Contrastive Analysis
Author(s) -
R Mantasiah,
Yusri Yusri,
Arlian Fachrul Syaputra,
Femmy Angreany,
Hasmawati Hasmawati
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eralingua: jurnal pendidikan bahasa asing dan sastra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2579-4574
pISSN - 2549-7359
DOI - 10.26858/eralingua.v4i2.13121
Subject(s) - linguistics , german , sentence , verb , contrastive analysis , subject (documents) , grammar , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , library science
The purpose of this study was to investigate the verb conjugation process of German, Bahasa, and English. This study used a contrastive analysis which is one of approaches in applied linguistics. Data consisted of words and sentences in German, Bahasa, and English, and were analyzed descriptively. This article is a preliminary study which aims to do need analysis in developing German grammar book based contrastive analysis approach. Finding shows that there are 4 factors causing verb of a sentence should be conjugated: 1) Verb Conjugation Adjusted with Person as Subject, 2) Verb Conjugation Adjusted with active-passive voice sentence, 3) Verb Conjugation Adjusted with tenses of sentence, 4) Verb Conjugation Adjusted with quantifier factor of sentence subject.