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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED TO LITERATURE
In this section, the researcher presents the library studies underlining the study matter. There are three main parts included in this section. The first part
deals with the review of previous studies which have the same analyses on the post-noun modification. The second part deals with the review of related theories
used to analyze the problem of this study. Meanwhile, the third part deals with the contribution of each theory for analyzing the data and answering the problem of
the study.
A. Review of Related Studies
Since the late of 1900s, the linguists have been conducting various studies on the analysis of noun phrases. The structure of noun phrases or its patterns are
indeed interesting to be analyzed. It is due to fact that it can be expanded frequently to specify the headword. However, the length of the headword should
be considered. Sometimes, its expansion poses the difficulties in organizing the complex phrases for some non-native speakers. Therefore, the researcher conducts
this research in order to establish and analyze the pattern of post-noun modification occurring in the speech. However, within the period of conducting
this research, the researcher discovers two previous studies that were dealt with
12 the analysis on the post-noun modification occurred in the novels. Those analyses
were conducted by English Letter of Sanata Dharma University students. The first study was conducted by Siegfrieda Alberti Shinta Mursita Putri
2007. In her study, Prepositional Phrases and Relative Clauses as Noun Post- modifiers in Doyle’s Silver Blaze and The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire: Their
Patterns and Effects , she discovered there are 505 noun phrases with post-noun
modification. The modifications are categorized into two main types of post-noun modification, which are prepositional phrase and relative clause. She found that
the prepositional phrase as post-modifiers took 68.91 of the findings. Then, the relative clause as post-modifiers took 31.09 of the findings. Based on her
findings, she concluded that the modification of prepositional phrase and the finite relative clause are the dominant patterns occurring in those Doyle’s works.
The other study was conducted by Brahma Putra Pratama 2012. In his study, An Analysis of Noun Phrases with Prepositional Phrases and Relative
Clauses as Noun Post-Modifiers in Poe’s The Purloined Letter , he established 1
the patterns of post-noun modification employed in the Poe’s work “The Purloined Letter
”; and 2 the significant occurrence of the functions of the prepositional phrases and relative clauses in the pattern of action since the novel
dealt with the detective stories. Based on his analysis, he found that there are 325 noun phrases with post-noun modification. The distributions of the modifications
are classified into three types, namely prepositional phrase, relative clause, and both the embedding of prepositional phrase and relative clause. Of those noun
phrases found, there are 210 noun phrases post-modified by prepositional phrase,