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indoor garden, while greènhoúsemeans a house painted green, so do the word blackboard, bláckboàrdmeans a chalkboard, while blàckboárd means a board which
is black. Other features are the tense and the plural markers. “They can typically not be
attached to the first element, although they can be added to the compound as a whole” O’ Grady, 1997: 154. For example, tense on the first component in a compound
“The player [dropped kick] the ball through the goalposts.” This example is incorrect, the correct one is “The player [drop kick]edthe ball through the goalposts.” The plural
marking on the first component is also disallowed, for example, “The [foxes hunter] did not have a license.” The correct one is “The [fox hunter]s did not have a license.”
C. Theoretical Framework
The first theory is the morphology theory. The writer reviews this theory because the scope that the writer uses to analyze the data is morphology scope.
Morphology is about the word structure and the data that are taken will be analyzed about the exocentric meaning which includes in morphology scope.
Then, in morphology scope there is called rightmost morpheme theory. The contribution of this theory is to conclude the part of speech of the exocentric
compounding, whether it is noun or adjective. The most exocentric compounding that the writer found consist of two words and the part of speech of the exocentric
compounding can be decided by seeing the second component or the rightmost morpheme or the right- headed. This theory answers the first problem formulation
about the part of speech of the exocentric compounding that the writer found.
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Besides rightmost morpheme theory, there is compounding theory. The contribution of this theory is answering the first problem formulation which is about
the exocentric compounding that the writer found. Exocentric compounding itself is produced from two words which are exist and have different meaning and the gather
together and become exocentric compounding. It has only a part of speech and one meaning from those two words.
Then there is morphological operation theory that is divided into two main types: inflection and derivation. The contribution of this theory helps the writer to
classify those words that have double morpheme. Inflection does not change the syntactic category of the words, while derivation causes a change in syntactic
category of the words Spencer, 1991: 9. There is also tree diagram theory. This approach helps the reader to define the
head of the exocentric compounding and it can be useful to define the inflected words or even the derivation words.
The last one from morphology is derivational and inflectional theory. This theory helps the writer to conclude whether the word is an inflectional or derivational
word, because there are some words that have double morpheme. The second theory is theory of meaning. The contribution of this theory is
helping the writer to conclude the exocentric and endocentric meaning of each word. It does not depend only on the electronic dictionary, but this theory helps enough.
Concluding the part of speech also use this theory, which is this word is a noun or an adjective or a verb.
