THE COMPOUND WORDS ANALYSIS IN SELECTED SHORT STORIES IN PITARA WEBSITE

Abstract

This thesis deals with morphology and semantics which concern the classifications and categories of compound words. The object analyzed in this thesis is selected short stories. The stories are taken from the Pitara website. In this case, the study intends to find out the classifications of compound words in morphology and categories of compound words in semantics based on Bauer’s theory. The data applied in this study are qualitative and quantitative data that is to say that the objects are written texts and the data is in the form of number. The analysis finds some results. The classifications based on morphology, they are compound nouns, compound adjectives, compound adverbs, other form classes. The categories based on semantics are endocentric compound, exocentric compound, appositional compound, and copulative or dvanda compound. In conclusion, compound noun in noun + noun form is commonly found in selected short stories in Pitara website based on morphology, and endocentric compound is also frequently found in selected short stories in Pitara website based on semantics. These results show that compound noun is the vast majority of compound that occurs in selected short stories in Pitara website, it may be because compound noun can act in some functions in the sentences such as subject, object, and subject complement where the other compound such as compound adjective just can be modifier of a noun or pronoun. The second, the English language in general has the head word in the last because the head is the most important of compound whose the second element acts as head word, and the first element acts