An Analysis Of Syntactical Movement Found In Time Magazine's Articles

This study focuses on the syntactical movement found in Time Magazine’s articles. This study aims to explain the types of syntactical movement
which are found in Time Magazine’s articles. It also aims to schematise the movement process by using tree diagrams. To analyze types of syntactical movement, this study used the theory proposed by Carnie (2013).
Moreover, this study was conducted by applying a descriptive qualitative research design since the data are in the form of words. The source of data was articles of Time Magazine published on 24th April 2017 (Vol. 189, No. 15, 2017). The data were sentences which contained syntactical movements.
The writer found 43 data in Time Magazine’s articles which contain syntactical movement. The data were categorized into three types of syntactical movement, i.e. Head-to-Head movement, DP movement, and WH movement. The writer found 13 data that belong to V → T movement, 4 data that belong to T → C movement, 7 data belong to Do-support, 2 data that belong to Passives, 5 data that belong to Raising, 8 data that belong to movement in Wh-questions, 3 data belong to Relative Clauses, and 1 data belongs to the Minimal Link Condition (MLC).
The writer also found that the types of syntactical movement most dominantly found in Time Magazine’s articles was V → T movement. The writer also used the tree diagram to display the detail of the movement processes.