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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study observes the syntactic structures in the headlines of The New
York Times newspaper (paper edition). Syntactic structure is a combination of
more than two lexical words, with or without function words. There are four kinds
of syntactic structures, i.e. structure of modification, structure of predication,
structure of complementation, and structure of coordination. The researcher
analyzed the syntactic structures based on Nelson Francis’s theory of syntactic
structures (1958). The researcher uses qualitative approach to analyze the
syntactic structures used in the headlines of The New York Times newspaper
(paper edition) because the data used consisted of words, not numbers. From this
study, it is found that the most dominant syntactic structure used in the headlines
of The New York Times is the structure of predication. This result indicates that
the use of words in headlines of The New York Times (paper edition), uses more
grammatical structure whose immediate constituents are a subject and a predicate.
Through this analysis the researcher expects that the result will help the readers
have better understanding about syntactic structures used in the headlines of The
New York Times newspaper.