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researcher must also consider the possibility meanings that occurred in a sentence.
F. Research Procedures
In conducting this study, the researcher employed five steps as follows:
1. Deciding the topic discussion
As every researcher does, deciding a problem or topic was necessary to conduct and confine the focus of the study. In this study, the researcher chose one
topic that is the most interesting. The topic was “an analysis on the pattern of post-noun modification occurring in Marty Natalegawa’s speeches”. The
researcher believed that Marty Natalegawa could be a good model since he has been becoming an Indonesia envoy for twenty-eight years. Since the focus of the
data is related to structure of phrases, the researcher needed some theories from related literature: noun phrase, post-noun modification, and syntax.
2. Conducting library study
After deciding the topic, the researcher needed to determine and comprehend the theories behind the topic discussion. The theories employed were
related to noun phrase structure which had described in the review of related to literature of chapter II. The theories enabled the researcher to analyze and collect
the accurate data. Besides, those theories could be used as the supporting background for the finding data.
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3. Identified the patterns of noun phrase with post-noun modification
When the theories have been determined and comprehended, it is time to identify the patterns of noun phrase with post-noun modification from three
speech transcripts. The transcripts were taken from the official website of Minister of Foreign Affairs. From these existed transcriptions, the researcher was not afraid
of having some misunderstanding of the minimum requirements employed in the speeches. It eased the researcher in collecting the accurate data. Thus, the data
were grouped either in table 3.1 or 3.2. The tables were conducted based on the related theories summarized by the researcher.
4. Analyzing the patterns of post-noun modification by employing Table 3.1
and Table 3.2
In order to gain the answer of the problem, table 3.1 was conducted as a media to collect and analyze the noun phrase with post-noun modification.
Through this table, the researcher enabled to identify the patterns of noun phrase which is modified by those each sub-pattern of post-noun modification. To
identify the specific patterns of noun phrase with post-noun modifications, the researcher separated the analysis based on the nominal slot described by Kolln
Funk [2012] 1990. Kolln Funk separated the patterns of post-noun modification into three slots nominal which are prepositional phrases, participle
phrases, and relative clauses 2012, p.135. The distribution of that analysis was summarized in table 3.2 where the proportion of the common post-noun
modification can be indicated. The result of the finding would be described in
