Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu

Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu
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Abstract

Compound words cause some difficulty in post-coordinate indexing systems: if too many are fractured, or the wrong categories are selected for fracturing, noise will be produced at unacceptable levels on retrieval. Various prior suggestions for handling compound terms are examined which include those for precoordinated or rotated, indexes.The syntactic origins are also explored and it is found that many compound words hinge on a prepositional relationship between the components, and that this relationship can be applied to decision making. Other compound words are in effect abbreviated statements from longer phrases, while some are influenced by the presence of a verb-like form. The rules have some bearing on the application of roles especially if these are employed on a pre-coordinate basis.

Keywords : Compound words, Parts of Compound Words in English, Parts of Compound Words in Indonesian

1. Background of the Study

This language is being used as a tool of formal or business communication from country to country. By using a language as a means of communication either in spoken or written form, it allows people to talk one to another and write their thoughts or ideas as clearly as possible. Therefore, if a language does not exist, no one is able to express his or her thoughts or ideas to one another, though the application of a body language is very essential to give more meaning to the spoken language. In other words, language is very closely related with a man’s feelings and activities.

Grammar is one of the language components is very important to support the mastery of the four language skills. Grammar as a description of the stucture of a language and the way to construct words and phrases are combine to produce sentences in the language in order to avoid misunderstanding. Bloomfield (1933/5:178) state that word is a minimal free form, hence, a word is viewed as a form which can occur in isolation and have meaning but which cannot be analyzed into elements which can occur alone and also have meaning. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interesting to analysis the different of English language and Bahasa Indonesia in term of word compound.
Based on the problems identified previously, this study focuses to analyze the constrastive between English and Bahasa Indonesia in compound words and find out the comparison of them. The writer will take the data from English and Bahasa Indonesia magazines as her object of research and then the writer will analyze the language and the pattern of using the word based on two theory, according to theory of English compound words, Jackson (2002:80) gave a good explanation, “compounds may be distinguished

from phrase on phonology, syntactic, and semantic grounds” and theory of Indonesia compound words, Chaer (2003:163), “penggabungan kata didalam Bahasa Inggris dan didalam Bahasa Indonesia tidak jauh berbeda. Hanya saja dibedakan oleh proses pembentukan kata”.
The objectives of this study are described as to investigate the similarities of compounds words in English and Bahasa Indonesia., to investigate the differences of compound words in English and Bahasa Indonesia
After doing this research, there are some significances found as following:

this study is useful for the writer to improve the quality in learning compound words., so that they can identify compound word in English text., this study is useful for those who will make the same research.