Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu

Infinitives

An infinitive is a verb with “to”. we call such a phrase a To-infinitive and represent it: to +verb. For example: they allowed the children to leave school early.

An infinitive phrase without to is called a “bare infinitive’’ and we simply represent it: verb. For example: they let the children leave school early.

Adjectives Compounds

The pattern of adjective compounds is any root (except verbs) + adjective. The second root must be an adjective and the first root may be a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. Verbs do not combine with adjectives in english.

N + Aj (not syntactic) : earth-bound, ox-eyed Aj + Aj (co-ordinate) : blue-green, south-west
Av + Aj (modifier-head) : near-sighted, off-white

Adverb Compounds

The pattern of adverb compounds is adverb + adverb, for example : Av +Av (co- ordinate) : in-to, through-out.

Parts of Compound Words in Bahasa Indonesia

Madjid (1984: 86) has definition about the compound words in Bahasa Indonesia is “Compounding is not determined based on the semantis meaning, but based on the gramatical meaning”. Therefore, one word has the diplacement group (transposition) even the word used in different distribution.

According to Alieva (1991:99), “compound words is the way to form words by combining by two components, meaningfull words or roots morpheme”. The criteria of compound words that often used is idiomatic meaning and the integrity of forms. The most important thing between the two morpheme roots, or two roots, which form the compounding, it may not be inserted a word or the affixes. Therefore, as the particular of compound words can be made, for example, two criteria as follows:

1. 
   Idiomatically meaning from compound words: the meaning that not exist from the sum meaning in each components forming the compound words.
   

For example: anak + uang : anak uang (the smaller of money)

2. 
   Compound structure: in each components that forming compound words is not inserted any words.
   

For example: Anak uang: anak kecil and anakku yang kecil.

Based on the nature of the relationship of syntactic between coponents, then the compound words in Bahasa Indonesia devided into types as follows: