Abstract
Various languages in the world have their own systems, especially in terms of verb classification. It can determine argument in the structure. This paper is intended to analyze the interaction between syntax and semantics in terms of the argument structure of the slide verb in English. The main theory used in this study was the theory of argument structure proposed by Kim & Sells (2008). The result of analysis showed that two kinds of slide verb: bounce and slide are intransitive and transitive verbs. The specifier (SPR) of the sentence structure functions as the agent; the Complement (COMPS) of the verb bounce serves as the patient and the COMPS of the verb slide functions as the theme.
Highlights
Language is a system of communication in speech and writing used by people of a particular country or area (Hornby, 2010:834)
This paper focuses on syntax and semantics
From the semantic role point of view, SPR in the sentence is categorized as an agent because it is a participant that does something and COMPS is a theme because its position can be changed (Kim and Sells, 2008:44)
Summary
Language is a system of communication in speech and writing used by people of a particular country or area (Hornby, 2010:834). According to Kim and Sells (2008:67), the argument structure of a sentence can differ based on the verb types, as illustrated by the following examples: a. Intransitive verb This verb does not have any COMPS as in the example John sneezed. It can be seen from structure (a) that there is no COMPS element and that there is only one argument realized by the subject John. The data were collected using observation method and obtained from one of many online corpuses, the British National Corpus (BNC), which can be accessed from https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ This corpus contains 100 million words especially in British English language. The theory proposed by Kim and Sells (2008) was used to analyze the data
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