A study on the use of structure of complementation in the Time magazine of March 2006

Supriyanto, Nicolaus Henry (2007) A study on the use of structure of complementation in the Time magazine of March 2006. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

The reseracher discusses the structure of complementation which is one of the English syntactic structures.Structure of complementation is derived from two immediate constituents, that is, verbal element and its complement. The complement could be complement itself or object. In analyzing the structure of complementation, the researcher discusses about (1) the classifications of the verbal element and complement and (2) the unit of the complement. The writer chooses Essay column of TIME magazine as the source of data and there are 134 sentences which use structure of complementation. To analyze the data, the writer applies top down technique of descriptive research, so that it will be obvious to classify whether it is a verbal element or a complement. The data analysis shows that 53 verbal elements (39%) are transitive verbs which include 34 simple transitive verbs, 16 verb phrases, and 3 phrasal verbs.Next, 54 verbal elements (40%) are linking verbs. They include 41 be forms and 13 non be forms. Further, 13 verbal elements (10%) are infinitives, 3 verbal elements (2%) are gerunds, 6 verbal elements (4%) are present participles, and 7verbal element (5%) are past participles. While,the researcher also finds that 95 complements (70%) are noun.They are 24 simple nouns, 54 noun phrases, and 17 noun clauses. Furthermore, 21complements (15%) are adjectives which is divided into 13 simple adjectives and 8 adjective phrases. Next, 8 complements (6%) are infmitives which include 1simple infinitive and 7 infinitive phrases, 10 complements (7%) are prepositional phrases, and 1 complement (1%) each for complements which are adverb and gerund. Besides, the researcher does not find any data which use simple adverb,simple gerund, and participle as complement. Next, the linguistic units of the complements are as follows: 38complements (28 %) are words, 81 complements (69%) are phrases, and 17complements (12%) are clauses.

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