A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON ENGLISH COMPOUND WORDS IN THE SELECTED ARTICLES OF BBC NEWS

Abstract

The joining of two words or more can express new meanings when they are written separately, as a one word, or hyphenated. A word may also have different meanings when it is added by some affixes. This process happens in word-formation processes. Yule (2010) classifies word-formation processes into ten: coinage, borrowing, compounding, blending, back-formation, conversion, acronyms, derivation, and multiple-processes. This research discusses compounding as a part of word-formation processes. This topic is chosen because English compound words have specific characteristics in their morphological aspects, such as the types of compounds, the orthographic features of compounds, and the meanings of compounds. The selected articles are chosen because a lot of formations of English compound words are not written in simple way but more complex. To investigate the data, the researcher uses qualitative research. There is one tool to collect the data. It is documentary study. The basic data of this thesis is English compound words. English compound words are taken from the selected articles of BBC news from www.bbcnews.com website. This research is specifically focused on the morphological analysis of compound words by analysing the compounds from the patterns of the constituents and their internal structures of the words. First of all, the researcher classifies the types of compounds. In total, there are 201 compounds from five selected articles. There are five types of compounds from eight types of compounds based on Bauer's theory (1983). They are 171 compound nouns, eighteen other form classes, six compound verbs, three compound adjectives, and three neo-classical compounds.