English Nominal Group Research Articles

Interpreting the Old English Nominal Group from a Parsed Corpus

The object of this study is to derive a systemic functional interpretation of the experiential structure of the Old English nominal group from a parsed database. The database is the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE), a parsed structuralist corpus. The methodology uses the CorpusSearch search engine to isolate nominal group tree-structures in two separate inventories. The first search results in an inventory of the nominal groups having the most extended experiential structures without postmodifiers. A functional interpretation of the experiential structures revealed shows that the categories of experiential elements in the modern English nominal group are enough to explain the Old English structures. The second search results in a much larger inventory of the nominal groups having the next most extended experiential structures without postmodifiers. Structural and functional interpretations of these groups confirm the variety of experiential elements in the first inventory, and show numerous types of variation in element sequence and realizations. They also show the need for an additional element category, Pre-deictic. Variations in sequence include Epithet before Numerative, and Epithet or Numerative before Deictic. Realizational variations include Classifiers realized by embedded nominal groups.

The English Nominal Group Structure with Special Reference to John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon’s Speech

This study entitled The English Nominal Group Structure with Special Reference to John Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon’s Speech is aimed to analyze the experiential structures and logical structure elements of nominal group used by John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon in their speech. The data were taken from the transcript of John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon’s speech at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. on February 14, 2013. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to analyze the experiential and logical structures of nominal group. The theory used to analyze it is the theory of Nominal Group proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen in the book entitled Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar the fourth edition. The result of analysis shows that in the experiential structure, T structure becomes the most frequent structure that occurs followed by D+T and D+T+Q structure. Meanwhile, in the logical structure, H and M are the logical structure elements found. Therefore, from the structures found, John Kerry and Ban Ki-moon’s nominal group structures have a simple construction and it emphasizes Thing without adding any information.

Complex Sequence of the English Nominal Group

Complex Sequence of the English Nominal Group

A Systemic Functional Study of the Quantifying Selection in the English Nominal Group

The literature to date indicates that it is necessary to introduce the concept of selection into the description and analysis of the English nominal group. This paper will carry out a delicate exploration of the functional structure of the English nominal group with the quantifying selection. It aims to identify the function of the item of in the English nominal and thus to explore the whole functional structure of the English nominal group with the quantifying selection. Through the analysis, we found that besides the function as a preposition, and selector, the item of can also function as a finisher in the English nominal group.

A Systemic Functional Study of the English Nominal Group as Interpersonal and Textual Grammatical Metaphor

The English nominal group is a significant grammatical unit in English, and its internal structure is very complex. Grammatical metaphor is one of the key concepts in systemic functional linguistics and the study of grammatical metaphor can be conducted from the experiential, the interpersonal and the textual perspectives. The literature to date shows that grammatical metaphor is a crucial property in English and it is mostly studied in relation to the English clauses. Grammatical metaphor in relation to the English nominal group can also be explored from the three perspectives. This paper aims to discuss how grammatical metaphor is related to the English nominal group from the interpersonal and the textual perspectives. The data used in this paper are all obtained from literature of English grammar by observation. Meanwhile, this research adopts a qualitative, descriptive and explanatory method, and analyses the English nominal group as interpersonal and textual grammatical metaphor on the basis of the metafunctions in systemic functional linguistics. The findings show that interpersonal and textual grammatical metaphor is also a property of the English nominal group.

A Systemic Functional Study of the Head Identification of the English Nominal Group

Head identification is the first and crucial step in describing and analyzing the English nominal group. The literature to date indicates that the way of identifying the Head of the English nominal group varies from one school of linguistics to another and even from one grammarian to another. This paper focuses on the English nominal group containing the word of and the research is conducted from the systemic functional linguistics perspective.

A Systemic Functional Study of the English Nominal Group with a number of

The literature to date indicates that a number of is a frequently-used expression in the English nominal group.There are various debates over its syntactic function in the nominal group and its internal structure. Namely, thetraditional approach, the transformational approach, and systemic functional approach have different descriptionand analysis of this expression. This paper aims to give a delicate analysis of its internal functional structure,from a systemic functional perspective. More specifically, the theoretical basis is the Cardiff Grammar, oneregister of systemic functional linguistics. The results show that a number of as a whole is a numericalexpression in the English nominal group. Its internal structure can be investigated in a novel way.

Comparing English and Mo/Deg Nominal Group Qualifiers

The task of this study is primarily to investigate the differences between English and Mo/Deg nominal group (NG) qualifiers to identify any similarities within the NG qualification structures of these languages. In otherwise, the study finds answers to the questions: “What are the qualifying elements within the Mo/Deg and English NGs?” and “What are the differences and similarities between the Mo/Deg NG qualification and that of English?” Using homogeneous sampling, the study purposefully sampled thirty (30) educated Mos/Dega (speakers of the Mo/Deg language). Short simple English sentences containing NG qualifiers designed by the researcher were given to them to translate into Mo/Deg. This was to see how the qualifiers are used in the language. Also, some of these sentences were given to some members of the staff of the Mo/Deg project of GILLBT to translate into Mo/Deg for further correct use of the qualifiers in the Mo/Deg language. The translated versions were then collected as data and analysed based on the Systemic Grammar principles of the NG structure. The results showed that the adjectival groups (AdjG), the clause, the numerals, and the determiners (pre-central, central, and post-central) occur at the qualifier position in Mo/Deg, whereas in English, it is the prepositional groups (PG), the adjectival groups (AdjG) (under some conditions), and the clause, which occupy the qualifier slot. However, it was also found out that the common linguistic units which occur in both languages as qualifiers are the adjectival groups and the clause.