EXPLORING SYNTACTIC NOUN PATTERNS IN THE PAKISTANI ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Abstract

The present study, which sets a new trend in research, focuses on noun phrases in Pakistani English (PE) journalese and applies universal and generative theories of grammar, particularly X-bar theory. Another distinct benefit of the study's analysis will come from shifting the emphasis from the sentential level to the phrasal and component levels in generative perspective. The idea that movement in constituents is ordered as a continual succession of lexical items is certainly supported by the sentential/phrasal explanation in PE. Nonetheless, mobility in constituents is advocated, meaning that shifts in positions are noted, and the sequence in which they occur is examined in relation to anomalies in the recurrence of constituents in NP in accordance with "parameters" to serve a communicative purpose. Consequently, data analysis is being carried out quantitatively by measuring frequencies in relation to NP occurrences utilizing an adapted multi-method technique that is adopted from de Mönnink (2000) for the study of descriptive linguistics. Many linguists have examined mobility in phrasal components in Standard English using their own self-made examples up to this point (see de Mönnink, 2000). Using a formal technique, the researcher has examined movement and talked about it using generative framework analyses. As a result, a fully transformational approach toward a more surface-structure perspective has emerged, and the framework by this study has limited the directionality of "move a" to leftward movement and reduced the number of movement rules to one general movement principle (move a). The study reveals that weight and information value are the key elements that explain movement in a functional perspective. The most often discussed structures in the formal and functional approaches continuous AJPs, FDPM, and [floating] delayed determiners are the subject of discussions over how to handle NP mobility. Since fronted pre-modification is the only NP structure that entails moving to the left of an IC, it is also examined. The study's results completely support the idea that a language learner would be better able to acquire and impart a language if they had a thorough comprehension of its components.