| dc.description.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. | en_US |
