Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu

The Similarities and Differences

The formal description of the morphology should reflect as accutely as possible the structure of the language. By the structure we mean the morphemes and combinations of morphemes described according to their class and in terms of word. Many of the structural problems have already been analyzed, a number of different ways in which the description of a language may be organized.

A comparison of two languages can be carry out using any several different styles of grammar. According to the Bloomfield, this emphasizes the importance of language based on a discription to the different categories that make up the pattern of language. these categories are define in formal terms and they are establish inductively. The differences among languages are emphasize as follows by Verspoor (2000:67) the differences (among languages) are great enough to preventour setting up any system of classification that would fit all languages.
The main similarities and differences of compound words between English and Bahasa Indonesia can be summarized that a language is patterned system arbitrary sound terms, characterized by structure defence, creativity, displacement, and cultural transmissionwere explain by Jean Aitchison (1972:28). These studies compared language from within the same. Generally, the similarities and differences needs to based on universal categories, one of the differen way they are linguistically realize from one form language to another form language.
Noam Chomsky’s theory of grammar be such a sample and as a application to be the basis theory on similarities and differences of compound words.
However, most of the similarities and differences studies carry out have based on surface structure characteristic, such as those describe by the structuralist. The procedure could be seen as follows according to Stockwell and Bowen (1965:101):

1. 
   Description (a formal description of the two language is made)
   
2. 
   Selection (the auxilary system or areas known true error analysis to present difficulty are selected for comparison)
   
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   Comparison (the identity of areas of the similarities and differences)
   
4. 
   Prediction (identifying which areas are likely to cause errors)