<![CDATA[This study examines verb forms and grammatical and semantic transitivity in Indonesian and English cooking recipe recipe discourse through a comparative corpus linguistic approach. The study uses a balanced corpus of 500 cooking recipes, comprising 250 Indonesian recipes from Dapur Umami and 250 English recipes from Jamie Oliver. The analysis focuses on the morphological forms of verbs, their grammatical and semantic transitivity, argument realization, and their functions in organizing procedural actions. The recipe texts were collected between 25 July 2025 and March 2026, converted into plain text format, and processed using AntConc. Verb occurrences were identified through Keyword in Context (KWIC) concordance searches, manually verified, and classified according to morphological form, grammatical transitivity, and semantic function. Frequency counts and percentage distrubutions were calculated to facilitate cross-linguistic comparison, while concordance lines were qualitatively interpreted within their procedural contexts. The fndings indicate that Indonesian and English recipes share the same procedural communicative purpose but employ different linguistic resources to encode cooking actions. Indonesian recipes show extensive use of derivational morphology, including affixation and reduplication, while English recipes predominantly use base-form verbs in imperative constructions as well as inflectional forms such as present and pasr participles. In terms of transitivity, both corpora contain transitive and intransitive constructions, but their realization differs in relation to verb morphology, argument structure, and syntactic resources used to organize procedural actions, participants, and resulting states. ]]>
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