HUMANIS
Volume 10. No 2. Februari 2015

FORMS AND FUNCTION OF NOUN PHRASES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CESAR MILLAN’S BOOK

I Putu Arif Gunasa (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Mar 2015

Abstract

This paper is entitled “Form and Function of Noun Phrase with specialreference of Cesar Millan”. The reason of choosing this topic is that noun phraseplays an important role in the construction sentence. To find out the data the datasource was read carefully, then underlined them and quoted them based on thetypes of them. It was analyzed qualitatively based on the previous theoriesexpressed above and the tree diagram theory was adopted from Brown and JimMiller in their book “Syntax, 4 Linguistic Introduction to sentence to SentenceStructure (1982).The aim of this paper is to find out and identify the form of The Englishcomplex noun phrase and the tree diagram. The concept of the form of nounphrase structures in was proposed by Quirk and Greenbaum in their book entitle“A University of English Grammar (1973)”. The book was chosen afterconsidering that there are many complex noun phrases applied in the sentences,which are needed as the data.Based on the analysis, it was found that a lot of complex noun phrasesoccur in the book of Cesar Millan. The form of complex noun phrases are dividedinto three categories, which are pre-modification noun phrase, post-modificationnoun phrase and multiple-modification noun phrase. Lexical and Syntacticalforms of the noun phrases are descriptively analyzed in order to get a betterunderstanding of lexical and syntactical form.

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sastra

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Arts Humanities

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