Abstract

This paper analyzes Yoda’s syntax order to discover the word order which occurs in his speeches and the factors affecting his preferred syntax. Data were collected from Yoda’s utterances in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga. Yoda, who speaks English, expresses his thoughts in an unusual structure which might not be recognized by the existing rules of syntax. Instead of speaking in the traditional Subject-Verb-Object syntax, Yoda speaks in Object-Subject-Verb and Verb-Object-Subject syntax. This study employs content analysis, diving into seven Star Wars movies from the Saga. Out of 169 sentences Yoda uttered, the researchers discovered three factors affecting his preference to use the unusual syntax, namely Yoda’s origin, personality and traits, and power and abilities.

Highlights

  • Syntax, by definition, is a set of rules that governs the arrangement of words to create a structured, well-functioning, and understandable sentence

  • Yoda was the only character in the movies who spoke in uncommon syntax

  • Based on the findings and discussion, the researchers concluded that a Star Wars character named Yoda produced uncommon WO in syntax in seven blockbuster movies of Star Wars

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Introduction

By definition, is a set of rules that governs the arrangement of words to create a structured, well-functioning, and understandable sentence. It can be argued that the rules of syntax are absolute in structuring a sentence. A study on syntax serves numerous purposes, from general humanistic to social inspirations. It can assist English learning by empowering us to break down the structure of English sentences efficiently and unequivocally. The representatives of the last models are useful sentence structure, lexical utilitarian language, and word syntax. In English, grammar plays a crucial role and contains numerous rules, for example, notional and grammatical concord or agreement between a subject and finite verb in the present tense. “Grammatical agreement, in general, has become the focus of the English language learning” (Djami, Setiawan, & Bram, 2019, p. 77)

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