Investigating Multilingualism on Syntactical Function: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

Language is a tool to deliver messages to be uttered from the speakers to the listeners and the ability of using language is very important because the number of media to deliver the argument and thoughts is increasing. In this research, the writer analyzes the ability of using more than two languages as we call multilingualism phenomenon. This research adopted a descriptive qualitative method. The researcher found two videos from the multilingual person. The writer analyzed Indonesian, English, and Korean. The result stated that the multilingual person gets the language in different ways. English is her first language because she lives and grows up in Australia. For Indonesian and Korean, it can be concluded that she is able to speak Indonesian because of her interest in culture and for Korean she likes the culture from Korean drama she watched since she was 14. In Indonesian syntactical function and English syntactical function, verb comes after subject. While the similarity is the placement of adverbial can be in the front, in the middle, or in the last sentence. Meanwhile Korean syntactical function has its own rule where verb is placed at the end of the sentence and not after a subject.