Theoretical Description REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
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b. Plural Inflectional The plural of English nouns can be shown by adding
–s or –es to the singular form of noun Frank, 1972. The examples are boy becomes boys
and box becomes boxes. c. Possessive Inflectional
The singular form of noun can be changed into possessive form by adding the
„s. The examples of this kind of form are the man’s hat, the boy’s ball
, and the girl’s shoes.
d. Derivational Nouns Frank 1972 declares that the parts of speech which have the
derivational forms are only nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. They may also be the part-of-speech indicators.
In addition, Curme 1947: 12 argues that from all those forms of nouns, derivative nouns are similar to compound nouns. It is because the derivative
nouns are formed by adding a suffix to a noun, or an adjective, or a verb. The examples of those suffixes are
–ness, -ship, -ess, -ing, -er, -dom, and –th. Moreover, other endings like
–y, -kin, -ette, -ie, -ling, and –lett also can be attached to adjective or noun to make derivative nouns. The examples of those
kinds of nouns can be seen in the table below.
Table 2.1: Derivational Nouns
NO EXAMPLES
1 Skinship
2 Awareness
3 Boredom
4 Warmth
5 Heiress
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From the table, we can see that the suffixes make the noun, verb, and adjective become a noun. The examples from a noun to become a noun are heiress
and skinship. Other example is boredom which is from the verb bore. Meanwhile, warmth
and awareness are examples of nouns which are derived from adjectives warm
and aware. Even though derivative nouns are similar to compound nouns, there is also
a clear difference between those two. For compound, there should be two or more lexemes that are combined and formed as a lexical. As for derivation, it does not
need two lexemes to get the affix. 4. Compound Noun
In this section, the researcher is going to discuss compound nouns as one unity. Katamba 1993: 304 confirms that compounds in English belong to the
word-classes noun, verb, or adjective. Since this paper is going to analyze the compound nouns, the other types of compounds will not be discussed further.
A compound noun can contain a noun followed by another noun, an adjective also followed by a noun, and a preposition followed by a noun
Katamba, 1993, p. 305. Moreover, O‟Grady et al 1997: 152 state that a
compound noun may be formed from a noun and a noun, an adjective and a noun, a preposition and a noun, and a verb and a noun. The explanation of a compound
noun from those two experts can be seen in the following table.
Table 2.2: Lexical Items Which Form Compound Nouns
Lexical Items Which Form Compound Nouns
Example 1 Example 2
Noun and Noun Fire engine
pencil case Adjective and Noun
High court green house
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Preposition and Noun Undergraduate
after thought Verb and Noun
Push button jump suit
From the table, it can be seen that the lexical items noun, adjective, preposition, and verb are followed by a noun. In most compounds, the rightmost
morpheme will determine the category of the entire word. That is why the rightmost component in a compound noun is also a noun.
There are two types of compound nouns according to O‟Grady et al
1997. The first type is endocentric. It means that the rightmost component of the compound shows the general meaning of the word. Therefore, fast food is a type
of food; bedroom is a type of room, and so on. Here are the examples of endocentric compounds.
Table 2.3: Endocentric Compounds
Examples Meaning
Steamboat A boat powered by steam
Airplane A conveyance that travels through the air
Air hose A hose that carries air
Air field A field where airplanes land
Fire truck A vehicle used to put out fires
Fire drill A practice in the event of fire
Dog food Food for dog
Bath tub A place in which to bathe
Bath towel A towel used after bathing
Schoolboy A boy who studies at school
Teapot A pot for tea
Bookcase A case for book
O‟Grady et al, 1997, p. 155 The table shows that the meanings of the compounds are related to the
meanings of the rightmost morphemes. For example a teapot is a kind of pot and a bath towel
is a kind of towel. Endocentric compounds are the most common
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compounds in English Bauer, 1983; Katamba, 1993; Plag, 2003; Quirk et al, 1985.
However, there are also compounds, the meanings of which do not follow the meanings of their parts like the endocentric compounds do. For instance,
green bottle is not the type of bottle which is green but it is a fly of the genus
lucilia. The followings are the examples of exocentric compounds. These compounds are also called headless compounds Katamba, 1993.
Table 2.4: Exocentric Compounds
Examples Meaning
Maple Leafs Toronto‟s NHL hockey team
Sabre tooths Extinct species of tiger
Bigfoots Members of an extinct tiger species
Walkman A type of portable audio cassette player
Blackberry A brand of a smart phone
Broadway A stage for drama musical in America
It can be seen from the table that the meaning of an exocentric compound is not related to the meaning of the rightmost morpheme. It has totally different
meaning from the meaning of its morpheme. Therefore, Bigfoot is not a type of foot; blackberry is not a type of berry, and so on.
Katamba 1993 mentions more types of compounds. Besides exocentric and endocentric compound, there is a verbal compound. It is a part of endocentric
compounds. The following are the characteristics of a verbal compound: a. A complex head adjective or noun, which is derived from a verb;
b. The nonhead constituent is interpreted as a syntactic argument of the deverbal noun or adjective head;
c. The 0-role of the nonhead is that of agent and patient; d. The meaning of the compound is transparent.
Katamba, 1993, p.308
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The followings are the examples of verbal compounds which act as a noun:
Table 2.5: Verbal Compounds
Noun-verb-er Noun-verb-ing
Moneylender Bear-baiting
Gamekeeper Hay-making
Shoemaker Brick-laying
Bookseller Sheep-shearing
These verbal compounds are also called synthetic compounds according to Spencer 1991, p.309. The heads of these compounds are derived by affixation
from a verb. For instance moneylender has lender as the head of the compound. lender
comes from the verb lend which is combined by an affix –er.
Besides those types of compounds mentioned above, there is one more type of compound called left-headed compound. Just like the name, the head of
the compound is on the leftmost lexeme of the compound. The examples of left- headed compound are passer-by, father-in-law, and nationwide.
The spellings of the compound nouns are all different. There are three forms of spelling according to Quirk et al 1985. They are solid, hyphenated, and
open. The examples of those forms are flower pot, flower-pot, and flowerpot. There is no definite rule to decide the spelling of compounds. However, Quirk et
al 1985 argue that hyphenation is more common in British English than in American English.
5. Compounds VS Phrases Some people may be confused to differentiate between compounds and
phrases. Because of that, Kingdon 1958: 149 distinguishes between Noun and
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Noun where both components are ordinary nouns, Noun and noun where the second noun is a nomen agentis, and Noun and Noun where the second
component is a gerund. For the first category, the example is steel bridge. He claims that 88 of his data whose origin is unclear have end-stress
and that “… a compound needs to become established before it tends to develop single stress
[= fore –stress]” p. 150. It means that phrases will have the end-stress while
compounds have the fore-stress. The example of the second category is watch-maker. He finds fore-stress
except where the first component is not the object of the second town crier. Finally for the third category, he finds again fore-stress in 88 of all cases e.g.
foxhunting , the exception is when
“… the first component has an attributive function
towards the gerund” p. 153: lead poisoning and mass meeting. In addition, Fudge 1984: 144 observes that end-stress among a noun and
a noun is likely to occur in the following categories: a where N1 is a location or a time kitchen sink, night watchman and b where N1 is a material N2 is made
of cotton dress, meat pie. Other examples which use end-stress include Ilkley Moor
, William Smith, and pound note. What is important to note here is that both Kingdon and Fudge identify a noun and a noun, where N1 has the function as
attributive, will have end-stress. While on the other hand, items such as watch- maker
, where N1 is the „object‟ of N2, have fore-stress. However, there are some words like glass case vs. glass case, steel
warehouse vs. steel warehouse, where stress differences correlate very clearly
with meaning differences Bauer, 1998; Carstairs-McCarthy, 2002; Fai ß, 1981;
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Ladd, 1984. The followings are the rules which tell us whether this kind of words combination is a phrase. First, the stress of a phrase will follow the rule offered by
Liberman and Prince 1977: “In any pair of sister nodes [AB]X, where X is a
phrasal category, B is strong.” p. 257. Therefore, glass case is a phrase. Second, the pre-head dependent of a noun, in a syntactic construction,
must be a modifier attribute Quirk et al, 1985. Therefore, toy factory means a factory which is made of a toy. Meanwhile, toy factory means a factory which
produces a toy. As for the compound, first, the stress is on the first syllable Bauer, 1983;
Plag, 2003; Quirk et al, 1985. It indicates that most of the compounds have fore- stress. Therefore, blackbird, newspaper, toothbrush, match maker, and other
examples of compounds are stressed on the first lexeme. Second, like most complex words, they will be expected to be right-headed
Lieber, 1992. It means that the rightmost lexeme in a compound is expected to determine the meaning of the compound itself. Therefore, school boy is a kind of
boy. It also implies to junk food which is also a kind of food. This kind of compound is usually called endocentric compound. It is the most common
compound in English Bauer, 1983; Katamba, 1993; Plag, 2003; Quirk et al, 1985. However, there are also compounds which are left-headed, for instance
feedback which is a kind of feed and worldwide which is a kind of world.
Moreover, there are compounds which do not have head or headless, for instance sugar daddy
and broadway. This kind of compound is also called exocentric compound.
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Third, Bauer 1998 discusses that the first element of a noun and a noun should not be plural just as
”eventsful”. The plural should be deleted. Moreover, the elements of Noun and Noun should not permit independent anaphora, or
replacement with one ”a bus-driver and a truck one”. Besides, they should not
be independently modifiable. There is a class of a noun and a noun which has the regular dependent-
plus-head structure but where the semantic relationship between the two elements is unpredictable. The examples of this kind of class are exemplified in the table
below.
Table 2.6: Examples of Compounds
Examples of Compounds
Battlefield seat-belt
fruit-market windscreen
glass case fog horn
hand cream hair net
milk bottle tea spoon
tear gas mosquito-net
Toothpaste shoe-horn
toy factory hair oil
sparrow-hawk brick-yard
Giegerich, 2004, p. 8 The semantic relationships which occur in such Noun and Noun have been
classified by Adams 1973: 60; 2001: 82. It can be seen that in most cases the paraphrase „N for N‟ milkbottle „bottle for milk‟ is correct. However, that
interpretation is only possible when the construction is fore -stressed. If it is end- stressed, it has entirely different meanings:
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Table 2.7: Examples of Phrases
Phrases Meaning
sparrow hawk „hawk that is a sparrow‟
toy factory „factory that is a toy‟
milk bottle „bottle made of milk‟
glass case „case made of glass‟
tooth paste „paste made of teeth‟
hair oil „oil made of hair‟
hair net „net made of hair‟
tear gas „gas made of tears‟
brick yard „yard made of bricks‟
Giegerich, 2004, p. 8 The difference between Table 2.6 and Table 2.7 lies in the distinction
between complement and attribute dependents in Noun and Noun constructions: in Table 2.7, the dependent has an attributive interpretation, while in Table 2.6 it
is a complement. What is important here is that, for an interpretation other than that in Table 2.7, it has to have fore-stress. Fore-stress is only available in the
lexicon compound. Besides, the existence of complement-head structure for a noun and a noun construction happens in a compound. This suggests that a noun
and a noun constructions with semantic interpretations other than those in Table 2.7 must be lexical. Next, the researcher is going to discuss corpus linguistics
which is related to the second research problem. 6. Corpus Linguistics
Corpus linguistics is a study of language used through corpora the plural form of corpus. According to Bennet 2010
, corpus is “a large principled collection of naturally occurring examples of language stored electronically
” p.2. Corpora can give information about the frequency, register, and how
language is used Bennet, 2010, p.5. Bennet also adds that usually, the researcher
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will use a frequency list to show that information. A frequency list “displays the
words occurring in a corpus along with the number of times each word appears ”
Bennet, 2010: 5. This theory can be beneficial in this study because it will help the researcher to make the frequency list of compound nouns that she analyzed.
However, corpus linguistics does not provide negative evidence. It means that corpus linguistics cannot tell that the word is correct or not. It only tells us
that this word exists in the corpus or not. Besides, corpus linguistics cannot provide all possible language at one time. It means that the language in the corpus
is not random but it is prepared and planned before. The last thing is corpus linguistics also cannot explain the reasons why this language in the corpus is like
this. The researcher should use his or her intuitions to answer and explain that question.
7. Previous Research Swastikasari 2009 did almost similar study to this research. Her title of
the thesis is “A Study on the Common and Compound Nouns Used by the Indonesian and non-Indonesian Writers in the Opinion Column of The Jakarta
Post ”. She analyzed all nouns that she could find in the articles. However, in this
thesis, the researcher only analyzed compound nouns. In her thesis, she used two opinions articles about Global Warming from The Jakarta Post in September and
October 2007. The articles are taken from the Indonesian writer and non- Indonesian writer.
She presented the table of frequency, type, form, and marker of the selected nouns from the opinion articles. In other words, she focused on the nouns
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and analyzes them in terms of frequency, type, form, and marker. She included compound as one of the types of the selected nouns. From the 29 nouns in the
article written by Indonesian writer, there are 6 compound nouns. Meanwhile, there are seven compound nouns from 23 nouns found in the opinion article of
non-Indonesian writer. It proves that compound nouns are frequently used in the articles. Based on the findings by Swastikasari in 2009, the researcher tried to
prove that compound nouns occur commonly in the articles of The Jakarta Post. The previous theories are related to the study about compound nouns.
After discussing those related theories in theoretical description, the researcher provides the theoretical framework. It contains the theories which are used to
answer the research problems. Those theories can be seen in the following section.