through a sentence she usually be having breakfast. In this case, the sentence refers the repeated activities which are marked by invariant be. In contrast to AAVE,
American English uses variant be to refer subject personal pronoun. The fourth characteristic is AAVE system omits verb auxiliaries for perfect
tense 2000: 56. The example of this characteristic is seen through a sentence I been talked with him. In this case, the auxiliary is omitted that makes the reader confused
about the time marker of the pattern. In AAVE, been becomes the marker of past tense pattern. However, American English system omits verb auxiliary been to form
the past tense. The last characteristic is AAVE system uses multiple negations. It can be seen
through a sentence of Can‟t somebody do nothing about it 2000: 57. In American
English, the sentence implies the positive meaning which is somebody can do everything about it. On the other hand, AAVE maintains the use of double negation
into the negative one. It is added by the statement from Fromkin and Rodman who state that the use of double negation in AAVE in a negative sentence which has a
negative word implies a negative meaning 1983: 256. Thus, it should be described as
can‟t somebody do anything about it.
C. Theoretical Framework
There are three theories that contribute to the research. The first theory is linguistic category taxonomy. The second theory is surface strategy taxonomy. The
last theory is African American Vernacular English. The first and the second theories focus on the grammar analysis. On the other hand, the third theory tends to see the
language construction of African American English. Linguistic category taxonomy and surface category taxonomy function to
provide the types of errors based on their own taxonomies. Linguistic category taxonomy aims to see the errors by analyzing language components and their
constituents. However, surface category taxonomy sees the changing process of a sentence that causes the errors. The errors will be classified based on the available
process of grammar errors. Both theories will be helpful to reveal the errors based on their own groups.
African American Vernacular English is helpful to reveal the language style that is used in Will I Am
’s songs. His language style will be influenced by his social life. Thus, the theory of AAVE becomes the guideline to find out the factors of
contributing the errors. In this analysis, the theory will provide the characterizations of language toward AAVE. The language rule of AAVE will be compared by
American English rule. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This part is arranged into three parts. They are object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study. The object of the study elaborates linguistic
features that will be analyzed based on the data. The approach of the study explains what kinds of approaches that are used to analyze the linguistic features. The method
of the study defines the ways of collecting and analyzing the data.
A. Object of the Study
The object in the research focuses on song lyrics by Will I Am. He has produced a lot of songs, such as
“Feeling My Self”, “I Like to Move It”, and “The Travelling Song
”. His songs are famous in America. There are several aspects that
influence the formation of lyrics. The constructions of word, phrase, clause, and sentence violate the American English rule.
In order to analyze the grammatical errors in Will I Am ’s songs, there are four
language elements that are analyzed. The errors overwhelm the analysis of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In the analysis of words, the writer observes the
errors of lexical formations in phrases and sentences. The example is the man feet. According to the case, there is a grammatical error of word formation on a phrase the
man. It should be added suffix „s on the word man to mark the possessive case.
