An Analysis of the Differences Between Sentence Pattern in English Language and Sigulai Language

This study focuses on analyzing and contrasting sentence pattern in both English and Sigulai languages. The study intends to find out the differences in sentence pattern between English and Sigulai language and how the sentence pattern of two languages are different. This research was conducted by employing the qualitative method by using Theoretical Linguistics research method. The research used judgment/purposive sampling in choosing the target samples. The target samples were two Simeulue students studying in Banda Aceh who come from Salang regency in Simeulue and speak Sigulai in their daily life. The findings show that differences in sentence pattern between English and Sigulai happen in verbal and nominal sentence. Moreover, based on the analysis, it can be concluded that Sigulai language has non-configurational sentence pattern as many other Austronesian languages.