An Analysis of Lexical and Grammatical Collocations in Narrative Texts Taken from English Textbook ‘Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students X’

Abstract

This study is about describing lexical and grammatical collocations in narrative texts taken from English Textbook ‘Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students X’. The objectives of the research are to describe the types and to find the number of lexical and grammatical collocations in narrative texts taken from English Textbook ‘Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students X’. In this research, the researcher uses a descriptive qualitative research as the research method because she analyzes phrases in narrative texts which contain collocations. The result of the research shows that the data contains both lexical and grammatical collocations. In this research, the researcher found 297 collocations divided into 67 lexical collocations and 230 grammatical collocations. There are 7 types of lexical collocations and 7 types of grammatical collocations, namely, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6 and G8.

Key words: lexical collocation, grammatical collocation, narrative text, English textbook