Comparative study of compound words in English and Indonesian Fransiska Napitupulu

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 

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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: 
a. 
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) 
b. 
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: