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The third comes from Korzen’s journal, entitled Endocentric and exocentric verb typology: Talmy revisited – on good grounds.From his journal, it can be seen the
similarity of his and this undergraduate thesis. Korzen talks also about the endocentric and exocentric. The difference is the data of Korzen’s journal focuses on
the endocentric and exocentric verb typology based on Talmy’s lexicalization patterns.
The fourth comes from Tuggy’s journal, entitled Abrelatas and Scarecrow Nouns: Exocentric Verb-Noun Compounds. As Illustrations of Basic Principles of
Cognitive Grammar.The similarity between Tuggy’s and this thesis undergraduate is discussing the endocentric and exocentric, while the difference is the data of Tuggy’s
is about the Spanish endocentric and exocentric verbs. The last comes from Pearson’s journal. In Pearson’s journal, the similarity that
the writer got is about the exocentric. However, Pearson does not talk about the endocentric. The difference is Pearson uses semantics scope in his journal whereas
this undergraduate thesis only uses the morphology scope.
B. Review of Related Theories 1. Morphology
The first theory is morphology. Morphology is the analysis of word structure. It is the system of categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation
O’Grady, 1997: 132. This undergraduate thesis discusses about the word structure especially the words that come from the electronic dictionary of Oxford. Therefore,
morphology theory is needed in this undergraduate thesis.
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a. Rightmost Morpheme
The rightmost theory is one of the parts in morphology scope. It is termed the head of the compound. The function of the rightmost morpheme is to determine the
entire word O’ Grady, 1997: 146. The rightmost morpheme can also mention as the right- headed. “Most compounds in English are right- headed” Napoli, 1996:
230.For example from the data is the word duck face, the meaning is not literary the duck’s face, from the right morpheme which is face, so it means the face which is
almost similar with duck by thrusting the lips.
b. Compounds and Compounding
The writer also uses the compounds and compounding theory. Compounding theory is also one of some parts that is learned in morphology. The meaning of
compounding itself is a process that produces new words by forming the already existing words which is individual word Akmajian, 2001: 32. For example, the
noun ape can be joined with the noun man, so that, it forms the ape- man. Another example is the adjective sick can be joined with the noun room and formed the
sickroom.
c. Morphological Operation
“Traditional grammarians usually distinguished two main types of morphological operation, inflection or inflexion and derivation” Spencer, 1991: 9.
There are some new entry words that having double morpheme, so that, this theory is needed to classify whether those words are inflection or derivation. Inflection does
not change the syntactic category of the words, while derivation causes a change in
