ENGLISH NOUN PHRASES OF NARRATIVE TEXT AND NEWS ARTICLE: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

Noun phrases, in either language general or English particular, are one of the pivotal topics formal linguistics. This paper aimed to contrast similarities and differences patterns ideational structure syntactic functions noun phrases two different text genres. It employed systemic functional linguistic approach using both Ideational analysis syntactical narrative texts news articles. The findings this study show that tend be shorter simpler, especially as they occupy subject object functions. forms pre-modifiers used also simpler (ranging from use only). same case occurs post-modifier well. In contrast, articles complex phrase structures (two even three at once) which coupled with other information post-modifiers. Appositives appear several times post-modifiers complete phrases. conclusion, these prove determinism writing style each genre has a significant share determining pattern complexity therein.