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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION
A. Previous Research
As consideration, the writer lists two theses with similar topics about Word-Formation and Componential Analysis. The first thesis was done by
Laila Afifa with her thesis entitled “An Analysis of Word Formation and Meaning Component in the Mini Dictionary on Owl City Blog
http:owlcityblog.com.”
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The focus of her research is the word formation process and the meaning components of the new words in the mini dictionary
on Owl City Blog http:owlcityblog.com. She uses the Word-Formation theory by George Yule for analyzing
word formation and componential analysis by Eugene A. Nida with paraphrasing technique in analyzing the meaning component. The result of the
analysis is the most word formation processes used in the Mini Dictionary on Owl City Blog are multiple processes, blending and derivation. The word
formation and meaning component are related to each other. The second thesis was done by Alif Ramdhani entitled “Word-
Formation and Componential Analysis on the Names of Music Festival in Indonesia 2011.”
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The focus of his research is the word-formation and component meaning of new words in the names of music festival 2011. He
uses word formation theory by Ingo Plag and componential analysis with
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Laila Afifa. An Analysis of Word Formation and Meaning Component in the Mini Dictionary Owl City Blog http:owlcityblog.com. Jakarta: Uin Syarif Hidayatullah, 2012, p.iv.
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Alif Ramdhani. Word Formation and Componential Analysis on the Names of Music Festival in Indonesia 2011. Jakarta: Uin Syarif Hidayatullah, 2012, p.iv.
naming process by Eugene A. Nida. The result of the analysis is blend and compound are commonly used in the name Music Festival and the appropriate
theory for analyzing the component meaning is naming type. Meanwhile, the writer herself chooses word formation and
componential analysis as two issues to be discussed in this thesis. The focus of the research is on analyzing the process of blend words of foodimals in
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball 2 film, component meaning of the blend words and those meaning based on context of the film. The theories that the
writer used are the concept of word formation proposed by Ingo Plag and Componential Analysis with naming process by Eugene A. Nida.
The differences among the writer’s thesis and the two previous theses are the corpus of the research used to obtain the data for the analysis. Laila
Afifa uses dictionary and Alif Ramadhani uses music festival names, while the writer uses film. The focus of their thesis are all of types of the word
formation and component meaning, while the writer focuses on blend words, component meanings and the meaning of the words in relation to the context
of the film. Moreover, technique of componential analysis the writer used in
analyzing in this research is naming technique that is different from Laila Afifah. The difference between the writer and Alif Ramadhani is in this
research the writer exposing the meaning of the blend words of foodimals using the context of the film.
B. Concept 1. Morphology
Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.
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Kentjono defines morphology is “A study concerned about internal structure of grammatical word, hence
morphology commonly called the order of word or grammar form.” It means that morphology is concerned withthe internal structure of the
word.
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McCarthy defines morphology as the scope of grammar concerned with the structure of words and relationship between words involving the
morphemes that compose them.
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In this term, morphology does not only exposethe structure of words but also the structure of morphemes as the
basic unit of analysis.
2. Morpheme
The linguistic term for the most elemental unit of grammatical form is morpheme.
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The definition of morpheme based on Stageberg is a short segment of language that has three criteria such as: 1 It is a word or
a part of a word that has meaning. 2 It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of its meaning or without meaningless
remainders. 3 It recurs in differing verbal environments with a relatively
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Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. An Introduction to Language. 7
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Edition, New York: Heinle, 2003, p.76.
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Djoko Kentjono. Morfologi in Pesona Bahasa: Langkah Awal Memahami Linguistik by Kushartanti, Untung Yuwono, and Multamia RMT Lauder. Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama,
2005, p.144.
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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure. Great Britain: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, p.16.
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Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams, op. cit., p.76.
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