morphemes help, -ful, and –ness. Help is the base which is free morpheme
because it is also an independent word. Then, -ful and –ness are the bound
morphemes or suffixes because it cannot stand alone as a word and it attached at the end of the base. But, in morphology, helpfulness can be sonsist of two
morphemes. They are helpful and –ness. Helpful is as the root which is a free
morpheme and –ness as the suffix.
Second is the process of word formation. Helpfulness is a derivation word formation because it creates new lexical items using pre-existing morphemes and
words and changes the syntactic category from helpful adj into helpfulness n. Helpfulness
is the type of derivation by affixation because it creates new word by adding affix
–ness. Third is the morphophonology processes. Helpfulness does not have any special morphophonological process in changing or omitting the letters
to form it into a new word. It only added a suffix –ness. The last step is dictionary.
Helpfulness is listed in Cambridge Dictionary with a meaning ―willing to help, or
useful‖.
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It means that the word helpfulness is a real word and agreed by people in the world.
4. Technology
Technology becomes a main part in human life today. They need technology items and use it to help them doing their job and daily activity. The
term technology itself is a combination of the Greek techne for art, craft, with logos
which means word, speech. At first, technology is the term for discussion of
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Cambridge Dictionaries Online, http:dictionary.cambridge.orgdictionarybritishtablet accessed on June 30
, 2015.
the applied arts only. In the early 20th century, it embraces a growing range of means, processes, and ideas in addition to tools and machines.
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―Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in
industry‖ that is how Oxford Dictionaries have a definition of technology.
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The example of current technology that is highly developed is communication devices
such as smartphones and tablets.
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http:www.britannica.comtechnologyhistory-of-technology accessed on October 1 ,
2015
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Oxford Dictionaries Online, http:www.oxforddictionaries.comdefinitionenglishtechnology accessed on October 1
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In data description, the data are collected from The Jakarta Post ‘s Sci-tech
articles on January – March 2014. The data that will be analyzed are the words
related to technology term which is directly related to technology, technology development, technology items and terms associated with technology items. There
are nine headlines that have been chosen and there are 54 different words related to technology term and contain word formations that have been found without
repetition occurring in the nine articles. The researcher also uses four main dictionaries to check every word that has been analyzed whether the word is listed
in the dictionaries or not. The four dictionaries are Oxford Dictionaries Online, Cambridge Dictionaries Online, Merriam-Webster Dictionaries Online and
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online. The words that have been found are written into a piece of paper. Then, the
researcher chooses the half number of 54 words from the articles to analyze. The researcher gets 27 words that have been chosen and describe into the table below:
Table of Data Collected from The Jakarta Post ‘s Sci-Tech Article January –
March 2014
No. Article
Word Formation Data
1 MY GADGET: Arifin Putra
looks to high performance. Eponym
WiFi
