AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE IN FOOTBALL NEWS IN GOAL.COM HEADLINE

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyse of English noun phrase in football news in goal.com headlines. The study is conducted to identify English Noun Phrase by using syntactic structure approach. The researcher took data from goal.com in football news headlines. The researcher used the articles of website news (www.goal.com) for his analysis. In the study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative research as the research method. The researcher started searching the news in www.goal.com, then finding the Bayern Munich news in champion league pages. The researcher collected 21 articles from www.goal.com. The researcher analyzed 184 of NP from the articles. The researcher defined NP of the spoken texts in the headline news using labelled bracket and using tree diagram to analyze NP in detail. The results of the study are Det + noun; it is 29% or 53 NP from the total number of data, Det + Adj/AdjP + noun; it is 17% or 32 NP, Adj/AdjP + noun; it is 13% or 23 NP, Det+ noun + Prep/PP; it is 10% or 19 NP, Det+ noun + Clause; it is 7% or 12, Det + Adj/AdjP + noun + Prep/PP; it is 4% or 8 NP, Noun + Clause; it is 3% or 6 NP, Adj/AdjP + N1 + N2; it is 2% or 4 NP, Det + Adj/AdjP + noun + Clause; it is 2% or 4 NP, it is 3 NP or 2% for NP + coord + NP, Adj/AdjP + noun + Prep/PP, Adj/AdjP + noun + Clause, it is 1% or 2 NP for Det + N + AdjP, Det + Adj + N + AdvP, Noun + Prep/PP, and for other NP structure only 1% or 1 NP from the total number of data. Finally, the researcher hopes that the research can add the readers’ knowledge about NP and syntactical study.

Keywords: analysis, football news, syntactical study, noun phrase