U.S.A in Syrian‟S Conflict: A Syntatic Structure Analysis on Sentence Patterns Used in BBC Internasional Articles

Abstract

This thesis deals with syntactic structure on sentence patterns which focus on sub-categories lexical verbs in two articles from BBC International Article based on T.G.G theory at PS Rules Level by Noah Chomsky. The objectives of this study : (1) to find sentence patterns are found on BBC International News article, (2) to find out sentence construction pattern found on BBC International News article about the Syrian conflict. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The data is 89 sentences from the articles entitled Syria war: Assad sacks PM as economic crisis sparks protests and Syria war: New U.S sanctions target Assad governments’ foreign backers. The result of the research shows that in two articles, there are 6 sub-categories lexical verb, they are transitive verb, intransitive verb, ditransitive verb, intensive verb, complex-transitive verb, and prepositional verb. The most dominant one is transitive verb and prepositional verb. In the article entitled Syria war: Assad sacks PM as economic crisis sparks protests there are prepositional verb (31,42%), intransitive verb (22,86%), transitive verb (20%), ditransitive verb (11,43%), intensive verb (11,43%), and complex transitive verb (2,86%). While in article entitled Syria war: New U.S sanctions target Assad governments’ foreign backers there are transitive verb (38,89%), prepositional verb (31,48%), intransitive verb (14,81%), intensive verb (12,96%), and complex-transitive verb (1,86%).

Skripsi ini membahas tentang struktur sintaksis pola kalimat yang berfokus pada subkategori kata kerja leksikal dalam dua artikel dari BBC International Article berdasarkan teori T.G.G pada level aturan struktur frasa oleh Noah Chomsky. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) untuk menemukan pola kalimat yang terdapat pada artikel BBC International News tentang konflik Suriah, (2) untuk mengetahui pola konstruksi kalimat yang terdapat pada artikel BBC International News tentang konflik Suriah. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Datanya adalah 89 kalimat dari artikel berjudul Syria war: Assad sacks PM as economic crisis sparks protests and Syria war: New U.S sanctions target Assad governments’ foreign backers. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam dua artikel terdapat 6 sub kategori kata kerja leksikal, yaitu kata kerja transitif, kata kerja intransitif, kata kerja ditransitif, kata kerja intensif, kata kerja kompleks-transitif, dan kata kerja preposisional. Yang paling dominan adalah verba transitif dan verba preposisional. Pada artikel yang berjudul Syria war: Assad sacks PM as economic crisis sparks protests terdapat prepositional verb (31,42%), intransitive verb (22,86%), transitive verb (20%), ditransitive verb (11,43%) , verba intensif (11,43%), dan verba transitif kompleks (2,86%). Sedangkan pada artikel berjudul Syria war: New U.S sanctions target Assad governments’ foreign backers terdapat kata kerja transitif (38,89%), kata kerja preposional (31,48%), kata kerja intransitif (14,81%), kata kerja intensif (12, 96%), dan kata kerja kompleks-transitif (1,86%).