Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu

d. Confix per – an 
Adding the "per - an" confix often results in a noun that indicates the result of an 
action (as opposed to the process). This resultant state or condition is similar to that 
obtained when using the "ke - an" confix, but the "ke - an" confix usually forms a word 
that has a more abstract or less general meaning.
Examples:
perkawinan {per+kawin+an} = a marriage ceremony 
perkiraan {per+kira+an} = an estimation 
permobilan {per+mobil+an} = the automobile industry 
e. 
Confix se - nya 
This common confix often combines with single or repeated adjective root words 
to form adverbs indicating the utmost or highest level that is able to be achieved by the 
action of the root word.
Examples: selamanya {se+lama+nya} = forever; as long as can be 
selanjutnya {se+lanjut+nya} = afterwards; hereinafter 
setinggi-tingginya{se+tinggi-tinggi+nya} = as high as possible 
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.

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