ADJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PARTIZIPIENTS IN THE ROMANCE SOWIESO UND ÜBERHAUPT BY CHRISTINE NÖSTLINGER

Abstract

There are some aspects in a literary text that could help a writer to deliver a message they want to convey or to describe a situation they want to explain. One of those aspects is an adjective. The main concern of this research is not the usual adjectives that we encounter every day, but instead the adjectives that are formed from participles. Because the novel from Christine Nöstlinger, Sowieso und Überhaupt, has so many adjectives from participles in it, this novel was used as a source for the data that would be classified and analyzed in this research. Moreover, the purposes of this research are to: (1) know the forms of the adjectives from participles, whether the adjective is inflected (declined) or not, and to (2) know the functions of these adjectives from participles. This then could lead to a better understanding of the meanings that these adjectives hold and to help understand literary texts better. Also, this research is descriptive qualitative research, where the forms of the data that were compiled would be first examined and classified into two classifications (inflected or not). This classification showed the result that (1) some adjectives from participles that are found and compiled from the novel Sowieso und Überhaupt are inflected and some can be used even without it being inflected, like how adjectives are normally used. After the classification, the functions of these adjectives would be analyzed based on their location in their respective sentences. This analysis is helped by the previous classification, in which some adjectives are inflected and some are not. The result of the analysis indicated that (2) the inflected adjectives from participles in the novel definitely have the attributive function, whereas the adjectives with no inflection could have one of the last two functions; applicative or predicative. If the adjective is standing in the middle of the sentence, then this adjective has the applicative function and if the adjective is connected with a copular verb (linking verb) and determines a subject or an object, then it would have the role in the sentence as a predicate adjective in a predicative function. Based on the analysis result, there are two recommendations given: (1) it is recommended to know the functions of adjectives from participle for a better understanding of their meanings, and (2) to do research on the variations of verbs that are determined by adjectives with applicative function.

Keywords: analysis, adjective, participle, form, function