A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS USED IN BUSINESS COLUMN OF THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 2019

Abstract

The objective of the study were (1) to find out the compound words found in business column of The Jakarta Post newspaper, (2) to find out the processes of compound words found in business column of The Jakarta Post newspaper, and (3) to find out the types of compound words found in business column of The Jakarta Post newspaper. The methodology of the research was qualitative research. The main source of this research was the English newspaper entitled The Jakarta Post.Some steps to analyze the data were reading the article in business column of The Jakarta Post newspaper, finding the compound words, collecting the data of compound words found in tabular form, and identifying the processes and types of compounding. The analysis results showed that (1) Compound words consisted of compound noun, compound verb, and compound adjective. (2) The processes consisted of a) 51 compound nouns (60%) with the division as follows; N + N = N, V + N = N, N + V = N, ADJ + N = N, PP + N = N, and V + PP = N, b) 19 compound verb (22,4%) with the division as follows; V + N = V, PP + V = V, V + PP = V, and ADJ + V = V, c) 15 compound adjectives (17,6%) with the division as follows; N + ADJ = ADJ, ADJ + N = ADJ, ADJ + V = ADJ, PP + N = ADJ, PP + ADJ = ADJ and ADJ + ADJ = ADJ. (3) The types of compound words found were endocentric compound and exocentric compound. Based on the results of this final project, the researcher suggests that this research can contribute as a media in Morphology teaching.