GTG Analysis on the Lyrics of M2M song Using Diane Bornstein’s Theory of Tree Diagrams

Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules, or “patterns relations” that govern the way words combined to form phrases and phrases combine to form sentence. Tree diagram is a two –dimensional diagram used in generative grammar as a convenient means of playing the internal hierarchical structure of sentences as generated by a set of rules (Finch 1998:107). Tree diagram is one of popular theory of tree diagrams proposed by Diane Bornstein. Music and song have an important rule in learning a language. By
listening to music, people can learn about some aspects of language such as a lexicon in which each word of language is listed along with information about meaning, its pronunciation, its internal structure and relationship to other words of the language and the ways in which it may be used in the word formation of the
sentences.

Related to the phenomena, the research problem investigated, namely “what syntactic patterns of positive sentences are used in the lyrics of M2M song using tree diagram proposed by Diane Bornstein?”, and “what syntactic patterns of negative sentences are used in the lyrics of M2M song using tree diagram proposed by Diane Bornstein? ”. The objective of the study is to describe the syntactic patterns of positive and negative sentences used in the lyrics of M2M song using theory of tree diagrams.
This study uses descriptive qualitative method because the data are in the forms of words rather than numbers. The writer describes the syntactic patterns of positive and negative sentences used in the lyrics of M2M song using theory of tree diagram. The steps to collect the data are finding the lyrics of M2M song and
selecting the positive and negative sentences of the lyrics. After collecting data, the several steps are done, as follows: first, writing down the positive and negative sentences of the lyrics. Second, analyzing the data uses Bronstein’s tree diagrams. Third, describing the diagrams in the form of surface structure. Fourth, finding
and mentioning the syntactic patterns used in the data. Fifth, making tentative conclusion in the form of phrase structure rules.

Having analyzed the data, the writer finally concludes that the syntactic pattern of positive and negative sentences used in the lyrics of M2M song using theory of tree diagram, most of the sentences of the lyrics M2M song contain main clauses and sub clauses. Each sentence at least consists of noun phrases and verb phrases which function as head and modifier.

This study is expected to give good contribution to the English lecturers and students. The writer suggest to the next researchers who are interested in conducting the same fields in syntax to use other theory that can support the writer use, such as analyzed that are not found in this research.