Nominal Group as Qualifier to ‘Someone’

Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna,Sri Wahyuni

doi:10.5539/elt.v10n7p257

Abstract

The paper titled Nominal Group as Qualifier to ‘Someone’ investigated types of qualifiers which are embedded to the head ‘someone’ in a nominal group. This research was conducted in the light of Systemic Functional Linguistics analysis. The data was analyzed, classified then described using descriptive qualitative method. This research produced four classifications of nominal group as qualifier, which were clauses, prepositional phrases, nominal groups, and linked independent element. The clause as qualifier is sub-classified into finite and non-finite clauses. Further sub-classification is conducted over finite clause into Full Relative Clause (FRC), Relative Clause with Preposition (RCP), and Contact Clause (CC). Further sub-classification over non-finite clause resulted in Operative Imperfective Non Finite Clause (OINFC), Receptive Imperfective Non Finite Clause (RINFC), and Operative Perfective Non Finite Clause (OPNFC). This research also found qualifiers which consisted of two or more linked non-embedding elements.

Highlights

Further sub-classification is conducted over finite clause into Full Relative Clause (FRC), Relative Clause with Preposition (RCP), and Contact Clause (CC)
Further sub-classification over non-finite clause resulted in Operative Imperfective Non Finite Clause (OINFC), Receptive Imperfective Non Finite Clause (RINFC), and Operative Perfective Non Finite Clause (OPNFC)
Nominal Group or NG in general is an interesting phenomenon in systemic functional linguistics analysis

Summary

Introduction

Nominal Group or NG in general is an interesting phenomenon in systemic functional linguistics analysis. As Jaelani and Sujatna (2014) argue Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is defined as the theory of choice. This research focuses on ‘someone’ as the head in nominal group, while ‘someone’ as a pronoun is said to be not normally susceptible to further specification (Halliday, 2004). Pronouns as one type of the head in a nominal group defined interpersonally by the speech unit (Halliday, 2004). The attempt to define which person ‘someone’ in concern is may be done through the modifying words placed just before or after the head. The words placed after and embedded to the Head are combined to form a qualifier, containing all information to define and specify ‘someone’. This research aimed at finding out the classifications of qualifier to ‘someone’ in the data and formulating the constituency structures of each classification

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