A SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS ON SENTENCE STRUCTURE USED IN “SOMEONE LIKE YOU” SONG

A SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS ON SENTENCE STRUCTURE

USED IN “SOMEONE LIKE YOU”  SONG

RESEARCH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Lecturer :

Rukminingsih, M.Pd.

BY :

   VICI FERRY ATLAN     

NIM: 157087

PROGAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS

SEKOLAH TINGGI ILMU KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN

PERSATUAN GURU REPUBLIK INDONESIA

JOMBANG 2018

A SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS ON SENTENCE STRUCTURE

 USED IN “SOMEONE LIKE YOU” SONG

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background of Study

A sentence is a group of words that forms an independent thought, usually including at least a subject and a verb. A sentence usually has a grammatically complete statement. The network of relations between the words of a sentence is called structure. The organization of a sentence is its syntactic structure. When discussing about sentence structure, it is explained more deeply in syntax, because syntax is often equated with the study of sentence structure. In linguistics, the study about the sentence of languages is syntax. Syntax (from Ancient Greek Syn, “together”, and Taxis, “arrangement”) is the study of principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural language. Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. The writer uses Syntax because it enables human being to compose complete message. Traditionally, the grammar of most languages is discussed under two heads, syntax and morphology.

There are many kinds of music such as rock, jazz, pop, R&B, and rap. All those kinds of music have spread everywhere, including to our country. Western music has begotten a lot of singers who are very famous on their own music, like Britney Spears, Bryan Adams, Blue, Westlife, and Adele. Music can express our feeling and emotion. Music is a universal language, so it can touch our heart when we enjoy it and it can touch any aspects of human life. Nowadays, music has a wider connotation since it still has a rule when it is demonstrated; it is beautiful with the existence of the

element of rhyme, tone, and harmony. Through its different lyric, music could arise the feeling of love, sadness, hope and happiness. The study of sentence structure in the song becomes more important when the word or lexical items are combined into sentence found in the song. Sometimes the researcher finds the words which have different interpretation in the forms of sentence structure construction. It is why the study of sentence structure in the song becomes important.

There are many reasons why the researcher selects Adele’s song as the object of this research: examining the sentence structure containing in this song analyzing the way of constructing the song by using tree diagram. The title of the song that analyzed by researcher are “Someone Like You”. This song was famous, and many people like this song. It is because this song is good to listen to and the lyrics are beautiful.

B.     Research Problems

The researcher found a problem that can be appointed as the topic of interest for further investigation.

1. What are the sentence patterns in the rock songs “Estranged” by Guns N’ Roses?

C.    Purpose of The Study

The researcher conducted the research in order to achieve the following objective:

1. To describe the sentence patterns in the rock songs “Estranged” by Guns N’ Roses.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

A.    Meaning of Syntax

Syntax is the component of a grammar which determines how words are combined together to form phrases and sentences. It can be concluded that syntax is the arrangement and relationship among words, phrases, and clauses forming sentences or larger constructions based on grammatical rules.

B.     Analysis of Syntactical Theory

Syntactic theory, as the term is used here, has its origins in Noam Chomsky's 1957 book Syntactic Structures. It can be said to have two goals. On the one hand, it is concerned to develop precise descriptions of aspects of the syntax of various languages, the ways in which specific languages combine words to form sentences. On the other hand, it aims to develop a general theory of syntax, specifying what languages have in common in this area and how they can vary. This is often known as a theory of universal grammar.

C.    Transformational Generative Grammar

The term Transformational Generative Grammar is used to Noam Chomsky‟s theories about Syntax. These theories were first rut forward in a book entitled Syntactic Structure which published in 1957. Chomsky tried to find certain rules which would create well-formed sentence of language. According to Chomsky, his grammar is Generative, since it can generate or is called Transformational since a basic or simple sentence like: I write a letter, it can be changed or transformed into a number of sentences with either the same meaning into A letter is written by me or with different meanings. Such as

Do I write a letter?

I write a letter, don’t I?

I don’t write a letter

In the framework of transformational generative grammar, the structure of sentence is represented by phrase structure tree, otherwise known as phrase marker of tree diagram. Such tree-diagram provides information about the sentences that they represent by showing the hierarchical relations between their component parts.

CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHOD

A.    Reseach Design

In this thesis, the reseacher use descriptive qualitative method. It means that the research is based on the characteristics of phenomena and the data were analyzed using the description not numbers.stated that quantitative research relies heavily as statistical result represented with number: qualitative reseach relies heavily on narrative description. It means that the researcher only intends to describe the data obtained as they are found in the fields and base on the problem statment. The researcher gives description of the adjective clause in written language by using tree diagram.

B.     Source of Data and Data

The data of this study is taken from the lyrics of “Someone Like You” song.

C.    Instruments

In this reseach, the instrument that used is documentation.

D.    Data Collection

In collecting the data, the researcher followed this steps:

1.      Read the lyrics : Someone Like You by Adele

2.      Listen to the song.

3.      Search about the song

4.      Pick the lyrics or sentences to be analyzed.

5.      Write down all the choosen lyrics to analized.

E.     Data Analysis

The researcher write analyzed the lyrics if the poem by doing some steps:

1.      Writing the choosen sentence of the song lyrics.

2.      Analyzing each sentence by using Noam Chomsky’s theories.

3.      Concluding the sentence patterns of the song lyrics.