CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of The Study We often get combination of two words that
produce new meaning. The meaning of each word will vanish and as result of combination of
the words there is a new meaning. That is what we call as compound words.
According to Ramlan (1985:69), "Kata majemuk ialah kata yang terdiri dari
dua kata sebagai komponen unsurnya"
(a compound word is a word consisting of two words as its element).
Compound word consists of addition of stems in
which a word is formed by the combination of two independent words. The parts of compound
can be free morpheme, derivative word, or another compound (Nida, 1956:1), for example:
girlfriend, blackbird, aircraft, and lifeguard.
Rahardjo gives a more complete definition
about compound word in his book Ikhtisar Tata Bahasa Indonesia (1983:159). He says,
"Kata majemuk adalah gabungan dari dua kata atau lebih yang erat sekali, sehingga membentuk suatu
kesatuandan suatu arti baru"(a compound word is a combination of two words or more which are
very closely related, so that after being combined, it forms a unity and produces new meaning). So,
it canbe concluded that a compounding is joining of two words or more which separate words to
produce anew meaning.
Fromkin, Blair, and Collins (1999:81) explained that there are three
kinds in spelling compound words: a) Open
Open means that the compound words are spelled
with a space between the two words such as day laborer, walking stick, filling cabinet etc.
b) Hyphened Hyphened defined as compound word which is
spelledby using mark (-) to join two words together, for example: cigarette-case, egg-up,
self-confidence etc.
c) Idiosyncratic Idiosyncratic means that the compound is
spelled with no separation like
blackbird, rainbow, and pickpocket.
Anderson (1991:319) says that
compounds are often divided into semantic types: endocentric, exocentric, appositional and copulative or
davanda where the second element is the grammatical headword and the first is a modifier as in
word wristwatch(where wrist modifies watch). Endocentric compounds are hyponyms of the head word. Where
hyponymy of this kind does not exist, as in scapegoat, the compound is
exocentric. The hyponymy is bidirectional, as in sofa-badwhich is kind of sofa or kind of radio, these are known as
appositional compound. Where compound elements name separate entities which might seem grammatical
headword, then these are copulativecompounds, such as Slater-Weker, Austin-Rover, or
Alsace-Lorine.
There has been research on Javanese and
Japanese compound words and also morphological analysis on Javanese slang but none analyzing
the side of English compound word itself.
For example, Muhibulloh investigates ‘A
Morphological Study on Javanese Compounding Idiomatic Expression’. He discusses Javanese
Compound Idiomatic Expression (2000). Mulyani who look at a Descriptive Study on Javanese
Compound Word Used in Panjebar Semangat magazine (1997) emphasizes Javanese Compound word. In
addition, Firdausa examines A study On Japanese Compound Words (2003) focusing on Japanese
Compoundwords.
The focus of this study is to
examine the construction and the kind of compound words found in Kangguru Radio English magazine.
1.2. Research Problems Concerning with the background of the study
above, the problems can be formulated as follow: 1. How
are compound words found in Kangguru Radio English magazine formed? 2. What
the kinds of compound words are found in Kangguru Radio English magazine? 1.3. Objective of Study This study aims at describing the problems
above, namely: 1. Describing how compound words in Kangguru
Radio English magazine are formed.
2. Describing kinds of compound words found in
Kangguru Radio English magazine.
1.4. Significance of Study The finding of this study is expected to give
valuable contribution theoretically and practically.
Theoretically, this study will
deepen our understanding and knowledge about morphological study especially on English compound words found in
Kangguru Radio English magazine. Practically, this study will be useful for next researchers as
references.
1.5. Scope and Limitation of
Study This study focuses on analyzing
morphological processes: compound words. The object of this research is Kangguru Radio English magazine
published in 2005 until 2008.
1.6. Definition of Key Terms To
avoid misunderstanding or interpreting the terms some terms used in this study
need to be clarified: a.
Morphologyis a branch of linguistics that studies about morphemes and
their arrangement in forming words.
b. Compound wordis a combination of one or more
words that produces a new meaning.
c. Kangguru Radio Englishis a broadcast program
began 1989 by Indonesian Government together with the Australian Government through AusAID
Indonesia set up the Kang Guru Radio English language radio program network in Indonesia. Kangguru
Radio English is more than a weekly English
language radio program broadcast on over 130 radio stations across Indonesia.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE To support the analysis, some references are
reviewed which include morphology, words formation, compound words and previous study.
2.1. Morphology Morphology is derived from a Greek word morph
that means shape of form and logosmeans knowledge.
Morphology implies knowledge of morph or what so-called the building element of
word.
Morphology, according to Yule
(1985:60), is the study of forms, which was originally used in biology, but since the mid-nineteenth century, it has
also been used to describe the type of investigation that analyzed all the
basic 'elements' which are used inlanguage. According to Gleason (1961:96-97), morphology comprises, first, the analysis of
paradigms of the four parts of speech; noun, pronoun, verb, and adjective involving largely the
discussion on the inflectional suffixes and their allomorphs.
The second will be the analysis
of the formation ofstems and words that are not inflected.
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