FINDING THE STRUCTURAL FORMS IN COVID 19 ARTICLES
Keywords:
structural forms, lexical bundle, antcon, covid 19.Abstract
The Covid 19 pandemic that has occurred around April 2020 to present, has caused a lot of losses and various business sectors have also been destroyed. The aim of this study is to focus on the use of lexical bundles (LBs) analyzed with Antcon Software ver. 3.5.8, structural forms in covid 19 from 204 articles. This research corpus is sourced from articles on the theme covid 19. The results show the distribution of the structural forms, this study found that the noun-based form and the prepositional-based form are the most frequent structural forms (noun-based 34% and prepositional-based 50%, making a total of 84% for both structural forms). The verb-based bundles only account for 16% of the total number of LBs. Within the verb-based bundles, the passive form can be found in 4 out of 8 LB types, which highlight that the sentences in covid 19 articles tend to focus on describing what is happening and mentioning the situation to prevent covid 19.
