Review jurnal untuk tugas English Syntax

NOUN PHRASE AS SUBJECT AND OBJECT

Publisher         : Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Ilmu Administrasi dan Humaniora,   Fakultas Ilmu Administrasi dan Humaniora, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sukabumi. SK. PDII-LIPI no : 0005.105/Jl.3.3/SK.ISSN/2011.05.

Author             : - Jauhar Helmi, S.S., M. Hum.

- Lecturer of English Education Department, Suryakencana University

- Jauhar_3^rd@yahoo.co.id

Vol. and Page : III and 2088-4486

Reviewed by   : Mila Ida N

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Research Question

1.      What is the function of noun phrase in a sentence?

2.      How is the function of  the constituent phrases in the novel “The DaVinci Code”?

This journal’s purpose is to review a journal by Jauhar Helmie, S.S., M. Hum, entitled “Noun Phrase as Subject and Object”. This journal chosen to review because it is important we know the use and position of a noun phrase in syntax. In syntax, there is the syntactic structure containing the syntactic functions and syntactic categories. The syntactic functions contain a subject, predicate, object, and complement, while the syntactic categories consist of noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, and prepositional phrases. However, in this journal reviewed, we only investigated the position of the noun phrase, arguably the most important part of syntax.

            Syntax is one of the parts of linguistics. Linguistics consist of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology and phonology. Syntax is the most important aspect to make sentences correctly, because syntax is the study of  how we arranged the words into a correct sentence. According to the book entitled Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation by John Seely, “Syntax is the description of how words are organized into phrases, clauses, and sentences.” In syntax, we can learn about the syntactic functions containing a subject, object, predicate, and complement. In additional, the syntactic categories consist of a noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, and prepositional phrase. There are also syntactic units, which consist of a word, phrase, clause, and sentence.

            A word is the smallest unit of syntax. Its definition according to Oxford dictionary, “Word is a single meaningful unit of language, used with others to form sentences.” Word, hierarchically, constituent of the larger units of syntax, which are phrase, clause and sentence. There are two types of word :

1. Simple word, consisting of one morpheme (for example: boy, man, son)

2. Complex word, consisting of two or more morphemes (for example: student, women, teacher)

            A phrase is a unit which consists of one or more than one word. It does not, however, contain a subject and a verb. Its structure is, for example, determiner + adjective + noun, or determiner + noun + noun; even if it has only one noun, it is also considered as a noun phrase (for example: I, you, Tom, car, etc.) A phrase shall be formed by a free morpheme, which means there is no subject and predicate or predicate and object structure relationship between the constituents of the phrase.

            According to the book Current English Grammar by Chalker, “A noun phrase is a word or words functioning in a sentence like a noun.” (Chalker, 1984: 46). There are three main components of the noun phrase (Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English) :

1.      The head, determines the syntactic type of that phrase.

For example: the old house, the white man, the girl in the party.

2.      Premodification, which is the modifiers are placed before the headwords, it can be adjectives and nouns.

For example: some pretty girls, the bright future, the handsome man.

3.      Postmodification, which is the modifiers are placed after the headwords, it can be prepositional phrases, non-finite clauses, and relative clauses.

For example: the girl who was kind, the boy at the college, the student in the class.

Methodology  

The method which is used in this research is qualitative research. The author used four steps in data collecting:

1.      The author collected sentences which contain phrases as a subject and object.

2.      The author italicized the data and gave information where the data is taken from.

3.      The author classified data based on descriptions.

4.      The author compared and analyzed data morphologically.

To complete this research, the author sought out data from novel The DaVinci Code and articles from The Jakarta Post.

Findings

            Here is the data which is found by the author:

1.      Their agreement was too great for coincidence. (Page 13;4^th paragraph) Syntactically, their agreement is a noun phrase, it has function as subject. Commonly, noun phrase could be functioned as subject and object in a sentence. The word agreement is an abstract noun and it is the head of this noun phrase (head is another name of headword). This noun phrase is modified by their, which is their is a possessive determiner. This is what premodification is called, because the modifier is placed before the head.

2.      The frightening image of the curator’s body remained locked in his mind. (Page 15;4^th paragraph) Syntactically, the noun phrase the frightening image of the curator’s body has function as subject. The head of this noun phrase is image, and it is modified by the article the in the first sentence, present participle frightening before the head, and possessive of phrase, of the curator’s body, after the head.

3.      The driver who collected Bishop Aringarosa from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport pulled up in a small unimpressive black Fiat sedan. (Page 160;1^st paragraph) Syntactically, the noun phrase the driver who collected Bishop Aringarosa from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport has the function as the subject and a small unimpressive black Fiat sedan is a noun phrase as object. The word driver acts as a head which is modified by a relative clause who. The noun phrase above is postmodification because the modifier is placed after the head driver.

4.      Sixteen separate tracks spread out before them. (Page 165;2^nd paragraph) Syntactically, sixteen separate tracks is a noun phrase and has function as subject, spread as verb and out before them as subject complement. The head of this noun phrase is tracks, it is modified by a determiner sixteen and adjective separate. The cardinal number sixteen is a numeral, which is numeral is a part of determiner. Because the head tracks is placed after its modifier, so this noun phrase is premodification.

5.      The priest who greeted him at the door looked sleepy. (Page 187;4^th paragraph) Syntactically, the noun phrase of this sentence is the priest who greeted him at the door functionally as subject, it is modified by determiner the (definite article) and relative clause who greeted him at the door. The head of this noun phrase is priest which is a concrete noun. Because the modifiers are placed after the head, so this noun phrase is called postmodification.

Conclusion

            We summarised from this reviewing journal that noun phrase (NP) both as a subject or object could have the same modifiers. It can be modified by an adjective, participle, determiner, prepositional phrase, and relative clause. The journal has shown the flexibility of NP to use in various sentence structures and its essential role in syntax to compliment grammatical structure. 

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