Syntactic Interpretations of Raised Determiner Phrases in the Passive Voice: Perspectives of Applied Linguistics Research Articles and Travel Guidebooks
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This study investigates syntactic interpretations of the raised determiner phrase (DP) in passive voice via applied linguistics research articles and travel guidebooks as written in English. The sources of data in this study were gathered from English applied linguistics research journals as indexed in the SCOPUS database (scopus.com) and the travel guidebooks were guides from the countries of France (McGill, 2021) and Spain (Keshan & Sanwalia, 2022) due to their highest numbers of tourist visits. A total number of approximately 300,000 words is made up of an entire 39 tokens, referring to sentences. The current study follows Radford’s (2009) framework to analyze the data. The results of the raised DP in passive voice in applied linguistics research articles show the same DP between given and new information at 62.50 percent due to the principle of consistency in academic writing. The results of travel guidebooks are in contrast in that the given information of the raised DP in passive voice is mostly used with the syntactic interpretation of the replacement by pronoun at 73.91 because of gender identification. The pronouns he or she, referring to the proper noun, are used as the given information. It is expected that the results in this study will be useful for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in order to apply the raised DP in passive voice accurately.
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