Background of the Study

2 distinguish lexical semantic and structural semantic. It means that semantics is concerned with the meaning of words, phrases, sentences to get meaningful sentences. Situation type is aspect that describes the situation that relates to time which arises from its meaning. Situation types as subject matter of sentences by focused on their verbs and arguments. It concerns the internal temporal constituency of a type of situation denoted by a given predicate. Further, Hurford and Heasley 1983:1 state that sentence meaning or word meaning can be defined as what a sentence or word means. Morever, that knowing the part played a particular entity in an event is one the most interesting thing to understand a sentence so that he?? will know the meaning of the sentences or words. In understandig the meaning of words, we should understand some aspects of meaning that belong to the level of the sentence. One thing that is important to identify is the smeaning of verb. Verb can be analyzed by situation type that is to identify the information of temporal structure of a situation which arises from its meaning which we first identify what kind of situation type that is used by the verbal predicate and we can conclude the meaning exactly. It is important to identify the situation type to understand the meaning of sentence lexically that occured in communication. In finding the situation types, actually we should understand some criteria of classifying them as well as the researcher will discuss in this research. So that, this study was discussed to give more knowledge to the readers about the situation type that is used by the verbal predicate. 3

1.2 Problems of the Study

During the analysis process of this thesis, it is important to make the specification of problems that are going to be analyzed. The problems of the study of this thesis are : 1. What situation types are found in the Novel Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban? 2. What situation type is dominantly found in Novel Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban?

1.3 Objectives of the Study

In relation to the problem, the objectives of this study are : 1. To describe situation types found in Novel Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban 2. To describe the most dominant type found in Novel Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

1.4 Scope of the Study

This study focusess on the verbal situation type found on the verbs or verb phrases and also focusess on only four situation type, they are : states, activities, achievements and accomplishments in the Novel Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. 4

1.5 Significance of the Study

1. The study is expected to give the readers the understanding what is the state situation 2. Identify the state situation in the table which fit based on theory of Vendler