Syntactic Analysis of the Noun Phrases in Justin Bieber’s Song Lyrics

This thesis showed the syntactic analysis of the noun phrases used in Justin Bieber’s song lyrics. The objectives of the study are: (1) to find out the noun phrases in Justin’s selected song lyrics. (2) to find out the most dominant noun phrases among Justin’s selected song lyrics. It was a qualitative descriptive research with Labelled Bracketing by Lesley Milroy as its approaches. The writer used 3 data of song lyrics then classified, analyzed and counted the data. The result of this study showed that there were 50 noun phrases with the details as follows : 15 noun phrases in What Do You Mean song lyrics (30%), 16 noun phrases in Sorry song lyrics (32%) and 19 noun phrases in Love Yourself song lyrics (38%). And the most dominant noun phrases found in Love Yourself song lyrics with 38% (19 noun phrases).