Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Syntax is the branch of linguistics that studies how the words of a language can be combined to make larger units, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. this study is intended to get information on the syntactic structures of singkil based on transformational grammar analysis. type of research applied for this study is descriptive research. in this study, the population is all utterances of singkil native speakers. in addition, the sample was taken from three informants who were living in banda aceh. these three informants are university students. questionnaires and interview were used to obtain the data for this study. then, the data collected was analyzed based on the transformational grammar theory. from the finding of this study, it shows that transformational grammar can be applied in analyzing the singkil language.