摘要：Tagmemic analysis is a comprehensive language analysis introduced by Prof. Kenneth L. Pike andEvelyn G. Pike from the Summer Institute of Linguistic, USA. This analysis enables linguists to study a language,especially the one which has not been studied before, in a more comprehensive manner. This study attempts toreveal functional slots that be filled by finite verb tagmas in English. The data for this study were taken fromvarious published printed media which have high standard English. Ten different sentences were selected to beanalyzed using Tagmemic analysis. Slot-role and four-cell analysis were conducted in this study. The result ofanalysis shows that Predicate Slot in English must be filled by finite verb tagmas. As the predicate is theessential or obligatory element in a clause construction, the ability to identify the occurrence of finite verbtagmas in English is compulsory. Finite verbs tagmas have different roles depending on the type of clauses.Tagmemes following the Predicate slots also vary depending on the transitivity of the finite verbs
