The Analysis of Ellipsis in the Novel the Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (A Syntactic Approach)
Total View This Week19

Institusion

Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin

Author

Subject

823 Fiksi Inggris, Prosa Inggris 

Datestamp

2018-03-15 06:47:30 

Abstract :
The functions of each types of elliptical sentence which are found in the novel. The method in this research is qualitative method. The source of data in this research was the novel The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer, which is published in 2010, and the books reference to support this research. The technique of analyzing data in this research is always linked to the theory and methods based on the Syntactic Approach. This research uses the syntactic theory of Noam Chomsky. In the novel The Short Second Second Life of Bree Tenner, the researcher found that there are three types of elliptical sentence occurred in the novel and their functions. The types of elliptical sentence are nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis, and clausal ellipsis. The functions of nominal ellipsis is as head of noun group, verbal ellipsis and clausal ellipsis are as a statement, question or answer.