Research Problems Problem Limitation

8 and a noun. The examples of compound nouns are fire truck, high court, undergraduate , and jump suit. There are two types of compound nouns as put forward by O‟Grady et al 1997. They are endocentric and exocentric. Endocentric means the rightmost morpheme of a compound determine the meaning of the compound itself. Since the rightmost morpheme of a compound noun is a noun, the meaning of the compound will also be a noun. Besides, the meaning will be related to the rightmost morpheme itself. The examples of endocentric compound are steamboat which is a kind of boat powered by steam and dog food which is food for dog. From those examples, it can be seen that the meaning of those compounds are the same as the rightmost morpheme. Meanwhile, exocentric means that the rightmost morpheme of a compound is not related to the meaning of the compound itself O‟Grady et al, 1997. In other words, exocentric is the opposite of endocentric. The common examples of exocentric compounds are Greenhouse, Bigfoot, and Broadway. In addition, there is one more type of compound noun which occur in the articles. That type is verbal compound. It is a part of endocentric compound. According to Spencer 1991: 309, the heads of these compounds are derived by affixation from a verb. The example of this type of compound is matchmaker . This compound has the head „maker‟ which is derived from the verb „make‟ and followed by an affix –er. This compound is also called synthetic compounds. 9 2. The Jakarta Post Online Edition The Jakarta Post is one of the largest English newspapers in Indonesia. It is considered as large because this newspaper has more than 40.000 articles. Moreover, it has two editions printed and online. The online edition can be accessed easily by many people both local and international. 3. Frequency Frequency here means the occurrences of words. According to Bennet 2010, frequency list “displays the words occurring in a corpus along with the number of times each word appears ” p.5. In this study, the frequency list will display compound nouns found in the articles. In short, this introduction in chapter one will give the readers a description about this study. After the researcher gives explanations about what she is going to analyze in the research, there will be theories in the next chapter. In the chapter II, the researcher provides theories related to compound nouns. The researcher uses those theories to conduct this study. 10

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter describes the theories used in the thesis about compound nouns in The Jakarta Post. This chapter consists of two parts. Those parts are the theoretical description and the theoretical framework. The first part explains the theories which are relevant to the study. The next one talks about the theories which are used to answer the research problems.

A. Theoretical Description

This section contains relevant theories of the study. The researcher provides seven topics which are related to this research. The topics are morphology, compound, noun, compound noun, compounds vs phrases, corpus linguistics, and previous research. 1. Morphology Since compound is a part of Morphology study, it is better for the readers to understand about Morphology before discussing compound. Morphology is a part of linguistics that focuses on words. According to Bauer 2003, morphology is “the study of words and their structure” p.3. Bauer also adds that morphology is a study about the changes of words. Precisely, it focuses on the shapes of the words and the specific units that used to change the words.