Wawan Hendriawan , 2201413101 (2017) A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND SUNDANESE TWO ROOT NOUN PHRASE CONSTRUCTIONS. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The arbitrariness causes the variety of language spoken in the world. There are many languages in the world and every language contains different set of rules and discrete linguistic units. It means language has arbitrariness in grammatical system too. People will have some problems when they learn it. The majority of a learner’s problem in producing foreign language, especially in the beginning levels, starts from the learner’s assumption that the target language operates like the native language. The study was a qualitative research. The data of the study were two root noun phrases taken by using random sampling from two different magazines; ‘Forbes Asia’ English magazine (published in November 2016) and ‘Mangle’ Sundanese magazine (published in December 2016). The data were analyzed using contrastive analysis in order to achieve the purpose of the study, i.e. to describe English and Sundanese noun phrases construction and to explain the similarities and the differences between English and Sundanese noun phrases construction. The findings show that there are fourteen patterns of English noun phrase based on its class of elements. On the other hand, there are eleven pattern of Sundanese noun phrase. There are only four same patterns in both English and Sundanese noun phrases. The construction type and modifier position of those patterns are exactly same both in English and Sundanese. There are two differences between English and Sundanese noun phrase constructions. First, some noun phrase constructions do not exist in Sundanese and only found in English. Second, the noun phrase construction exists in both languages, but with different modifier positions. For example, the pronoun in noun phrase of English and Sundanese with two elements ‘Noun and Pronoun’ is as a modifier of the noun, but the position of pronoun is different. In English the modifier (pronoun) comes before the head (noun) with ‘pn + N’ pattern, while in Sundanese the modifier (pronoun) comes after the head (noun) with ‘N + pn’ pattern. The result will hopefully be used by the teacher as a reference in teaching phrases of English or Sundanese. It helps the teacher in choosing how to teach the materials to the students in learning process, so the teacher will teach them in a better way.

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