Prepositional Phrase in Javanese: an X-bar Analysis

DOI

10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

prepositional phrase, adjunct, complement, X-bar theory

Abstract

This paper aimed to examine prepositional category followed by other elements as objects or modifier to form a prepositional phrase. There are some types of preposition in Javanese, however the writer only focus on manner, spatial and temporal preposition. Besides determining its structure, this paper also determined the syntactical function of prepositional phrase that is as an adjunct or complement. The method used in presenting the data is descriptive qualitative while the analysis used is X-bar theory. The data were taken from various articles in Panjebar Semangat magazine. The result of the analysis showed that structure of prepositional phrase in Javanese consists of: 1) PP = P’, Spec. P’ = P, Comp. and 2) PP = P’, Spec. P’ = P’, Adjunct; P’ = P, Compl.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dewi Norma Utami
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Prepositional Phrase in Javanese: an X-bar Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 66
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.12
DO  - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.12
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