Sifat Sintaksis Kata Kerja Attention Terhadap Data Pada COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)

This paper analysed further elaboration of syntactic properties of the main Attention verb. All data required for this study were taken from Corpus of Contemporary American English. This paper aims to (1) analyse the structure of sentences with omittable O slot in Attention verb at the level of sentence (2) extend classification of Tense and Aspect, (3) explore the complement clauses allowed filling the O slot in Syntactic Properties of Attention verb. The research was conducted through qualitative procedures by categorizing a certain construction of the sentences and interpreting certain context related to the data.
The extended classification resulted the expand of sentence classification as constituent part, the omission O slot is enriched not only in simple sentence but also in compound, complex, compound-complex sentence, fragment sentence and TO infinitives. The application of tense and aspect are applied in various aspect which the omission O slot is mostly found in actual perpective and some in actual imperpective, previous perpective, previous imperpective and irrealis.
The feature of complement clause in Attention verb has released special properties; That, WH, Modal (FOR) TO, Judgment TO and ING complement are allowed in some specific subtypes. In Complement clause, the That and WH complement clause are constituted in all verb types. Modal FOR TO is generally formed in See, Show, Discover, Look subtype (only in look (at), and Watch subtype; Judgment TO is found See, Show, Recognise subtype except in Witness, Look and Watch subtype. ING complement exists in all verb types except in Witness subtype.