A Contrastive Analysis Between English and Karonese Possessive Pronouns

A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH
AND KARONESE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

A THESIS
BY
DAUD STEVEN LINGGA
REG. NO: 120705076

DEPARTEMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN
2017

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A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND
KARONESE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
A THESIS
BY
DAUD STEVEN LINGGA

REG. NO. 120705076
SUPERVISOR

CO-SUPERVISOR

Dr. Matius CA Sembiring M.A
NIP. 19521126 198112 1 001

Dr. Bahagia Tarigan M.A
NIP.19581017 198601 1 001

Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera
Utara Medan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Sarjana Sastra from Department of English

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2017


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Approved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as thesis for The SarjanaSastra
Examination.

Head,

Secretary,

Dr. Deliana, M.Hum.

Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A. Ph.D

NIP. 19571117 198303 2 002

NIP. 19750209 200812 1 002

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Accepted by the Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of requirements
for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of
Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara, Medan.

The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural
Studies University of Sumatera Utara on May 23th , 2017

Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Sumatera Utara

Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S.
NIP.19600805 198703 1 001

Board of Examiners
Dr. Deliana, M.Hum___________________

Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A. Ph.D.

__________________


Dr. Matius CA Sembiring, M.A.

__________________

Dr. Bahagia Tarigan, M.A

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DAUD STEVEN LINGGA, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE

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: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
BETWEEN ENGLISH AND KARONESE
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
: S-1/SARJANA SASTRA
: ENGLISH

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, I would like to thank God for His grace, blood, love, wisdom,
and power which He sent me to finish this thesis and for every incredible journey
I’ve been through and days to come. It is only by His loves.
My special love for my beloved parents. Thank you for your patience,
encouragement, material and spiritual support during my study. I would like to
express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor and co-supervisor, Dr. Matius C.A.
Sembiring, M.A. and Dr. Bahagia Tarigan, M.A. Thank you for your supervision
and guidance in accomplishing this thesis.
I would also like to thank the chairman and secretary of English
Department, Dr. Deliana, M.Hum. and Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph.D., my

lecturers, and the staffs of English Department for the facilities and opportunities
given to me during my study at the Faculty of Culture Studies.
I thank God for the mercy He sent me during the process of writing to
complete this thesis.
Medan, 26th July, 2017

Daud Steven Lingga
Reg. No.: 120705076

Universitas Sumatera Utara

ABSTRACT
The title of this thesis ‘A contrastive analysis between English and Karonese
possessive pronouns’. The problems of the writing is the differences and
similarities between these two languaes which are belonged to different family
languaes. The scopes of writing are dealing with the possessive pronouns. This
kind of research is qualitative of liberary and field research. The data deal with
English were taken from written texts and the data for Karonese were taken from
written texts and some addition were taken from some informants.
The interpretaion of the data analysed shows that there are more differences

than similarities between these two languages possessive pronouns. English has
seven forms of pronominal possessive adjective pronouns whereas Karonese has
four forms. English has seven forms of absolute possessive pronouns whereas
Karonese has two forms. The ways of using the possessive pronouns between
these two different languages are quite different. English pronominal possessive
pronouns used as like as adjective (before the noun) whereas Karonese used as
like as suffixes, attatched to the noun.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapters

Contents
Author’s Declaration
Copyright Declaration
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of Contents


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1.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6


INTRODUCTION ................................................................
The Background of the Research ...........................................
Problems of the Research........................................................
The Objectives of the Research..............................................
The Scopes of the Analysis ..............................................
The Significances of the Research .........................................
Methods of the Analysis ........................................................

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2.
2.1
2.2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ...........................
The Related Theory Applied ................................................
Contrastive Linguistics .......................................................

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3.
3.1
3.2
3.3

METHODOLOGY ...............................................................
Research Methods ................................................................
Data Collecting Methods .....................................................
The Method of Data Analysis .............................................

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4.
4.1
4.2

ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS .............................................
Analysis ................................................................................
Findings ................................................................................

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5.1
5.2

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ............................
Conclsions ............................................................................
Suggestions ..........................................................................

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REFERENCES

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