A SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH VERSION OF SURAH AS-SAFFAT

Istiana, Noor. 2014. A Syntactical Analysis on the English Version of Surah As-Saffat. English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (1) Ahdi Riyono, S.S, M.Hum, (2) Diah Kurniati, S.Pd, M.Pd Keywords: Syntax, syntactical construction, syntactical device, English translation, Surah As-Saffat Studying syntax is important since it studies how sentences are formed and arranged. To make a good sentence, the students should know how the sentence is formed and what kinds of construction that used to build a sentence. It starts from the smallest construction namely phrase into the biggest construction namely sentence. The students cannot arrange or make a good sentence without know about the construction first. If people can arrange the correct sentences, so they can arrange a good writing and make a good communication with another people. Radford (1997: 1) said that “syntax is concerned with the ways in which words can be combined together to form phrases and sentences”. Ramelan (1992: 158) stated that the purpose of the syntactical analysis is to see how the constructions are arranged and what syntactic devices are used in the arrangement. This research aims to know the types of syntactical construction that used in the sentences in the English version of Surah As-Saffat. Besides that, it also aims to know the syntactical devices used to build a construction in the sentences in the English version of Surah As-Saffat. The research is conducted through descriptive qualitative research. One hundred and eight sentences from one hundred and eighty two verses are selected. To analyze the syntactical constructions and syntactical devices in the English translation, the writer uses structural approach in Ramelan’s (1992) framework. The writer found that there are 2 types of endocentric constructions and 3 types of exocentric constructions in the sentences of English version of Surah As-Saffat. There are 39 attributive (30.5%) and 7 appositive (5.5%) of endocentric constructions. Besides that, there are 21 directive (16.5%), 24 complementive (18.5%), and 37 predicative (29%) of exocentric constructions. In syntactical devices, there are 39 word orders (25%), 8 function words (5%), and 108 prosodies (70%). The writer suggests the students who will analyze syntax can use the English version of Al Qur’an as their data source in their further research. Hopefully, the lecturer can explain more about syntactical constructions and syntactical devices, so the students get variations in the syntactical analysis