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A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF NULL SUBJECTS IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

29 Pages : 359-372

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).29      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).29      Published : Mar 2022

A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse

    This study uses a minimalist approach to explore the syntactic structures of teachers at the undergraduate level. It aims to find null subject(s) used in the sentence structure of lecturers who teach English in undergraduate classes. For the data collection, two universities of Federal territory in Islamabad were chosen by the researchers. The lectures [of English teachers] delivered in classes were recorded through an audiogenic device which was transcribed word by word manually. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. In qualitative analysis, the transcribed material was analyzed with the help of parsing and a tree diagram. In quantitative studies, the occurrences of the syntactic parameters are shown with tabulations. The data analyzed reveals that the undergraduate teachers use language with three types of null subjects in their syntactic structures, i.e., Imperative Null Subject, Non-finite Null Subject, and Truncated Null Subject. The minimal sentence structure pairs impact a different level of language, changing its dimensions.

    Classroom, Minimalism, Null Subject, Syntactic Structure, Teachers
    (1) Muhammad Saleem
    Subject Specialist (English), Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Ayaz Ahmad Aryan
    Lecturer, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Bahramand Shah
    Assistant Professor, Area Study Center, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Saleem, Muhammad, Ayaz Ahmad Aryan, and Bahramand Shah. 2022. "A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse." Global Language Review, VII (I): 359-372 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).29
    HARVARD : SALEEM, M., ARYAN, A. A. & SHAH, B. 2022. A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse. Global Language Review, VII, 359-372.
    MHRA : Saleem, Muhammad, Ayaz Ahmad Aryan, and Bahramand Shah. 2022. "A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse." Global Language Review, VII: 359-372
    MLA : Saleem, Muhammad, Ayaz Ahmad Aryan, and Bahramand Shah. "A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse." Global Language Review, VII.I (2022): 359-372 Print.
    OXFORD : Saleem, Muhammad, Aryan, Ayaz Ahmad, and Shah, Bahramand (2022), "A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse", Global Language Review, VII (I), 359-372
    TURABIAN : Saleem, Muhammad, Ayaz Ahmad Aryan, and Bahramand Shah. "A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects in Academic Discourse." Global Language Review VII, no. I (2022): 359-372. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).29