Maulidia, H.R. & Kusumah, C.M. An Analysis of English Compound Words in An Article
of Life and Style Column
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For example, when there are innovations, they are given a name in order to be
communicated about. According to O’Grady & Guzman (1996) state that there are
several operations or processes that can change a word's structure by adding
components or making internal changes to communicate a new meaning or denote a
grammatical difference. For instance, verb, noun, and past tense. As a result, both the
variety and development of words occur throughout time in every language. As a
result, new words are added to every language.
There may be some issues when it comes to the readers' comprehending certain
rules when it comes to understanding a context, such as in discourse analysis. When
we use an English dictionary to find different meanings of the verb
walk, there is no
space for a
walk,
walks, or
walks.
If we make the sentence My brother walked out this
morning. We will not find out why he
walked out. Meanwhile, we write the entry and
walk out. From the previous example, it can be assumed that the language user has to
make a distinction between the word in an abstract sense or lexeme and in a concrete
word. Thus, this study deals with word formation in morphology. (Booij, 2005) states
that morphology is the study of the internal structure of words that deals with the forms
of lexemes (inflection) and how to form lexemes.
In the morphological process, there
are many ways to create words, such as
inflection, derivation, and compounding. Inflection is the morphological process of a
lexeme, creating many forms for that lexeme. It is called a "set of grammatical words."
Furthermore, derivation is the way of forming a new word from an existing word. It
can be created by adding a prefix or suffix. On the other hand, compounding or
composition consists of the combination of two words into new lexemes. It can often be
challenging to tell whether a statement is made up of a phrase or a compound when
trying to grasp it. Due to their similarities in some ways, it may be difficult to tell if it is
a compound or a noun. For instance, the meaning of
greenhouse and
greenhouse is similar,
leading us to believe there is no difference between the two. However, by returning to
the theories, it will be possible to overcome the challenge of identifying a phrase from
a compound.
This study consists primarily of a morphological analysis to determine the type of
compounding that was utilized in the life and style column in the Jakarta Globe. The
part of speech used by the compound and its constituents allows us to morphologically
identify the use of the compound in the text. Additionally, this study concentrates on
the semantic connections between the compound and its head in
terms of the semantic
aspect.
There has been research on the use of compound words in the morphology of
words. A study conducted by Christianto (2020), a research of compound words in
English showed that there were several types of English compound words. Those are
endocentric, exocentric, and copulative. The result of lexical categories from the process
of compounding is adjective, noun, and verb compounds. Furthermore, the research
conducted by Ningsih & Rosa, (2013) on the types and processes of compound words
used in headline news columns in the Jakarta Post newspaper showed that there were
71 compound nouns from 114 data. The data also showed there were 14
compound
verbs and 29 compound adjectives. Moreover, compounding research conducted by
Dewi et al., (2020) entitled Compound Words in the Harry Potter Novel The Goblet of
Fire, found three types of compound words, which are attributive, coordinative, and
subordinative. Many compound words from that study have
a general meaning like in