A Morphological Study on Compound Words In English An Analysis of Compound Words Used in Information Technology

11 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Previous Studies

There are some previous studies related to the topic of compound words as follows. In this section, the writer takes five previous studies as a reference that is reviewed to this research. The first study came from the Faculty of Education in English Department, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, written by Kristin Oktiana, the second study is came from the same university made by Toni Kurniawan, the third study is from Faculty of Adab and Humanities, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah of Jakarta which made by Nurul Aini Saputri, the fourth is from International Journal of English and Education, Department of Linguistics, made by Yumnam Aboy Singh, and the last is fromJournal of Arts and Humanities written by Wei Liu and Wenyu Liu.

1. A Morphological Study on Compound Words In English

Translation of Al- Qur’an. This research paper is aimed at answering two problems, namely the variation forms of compound word and the meanings of the compound found in English Translation of Al- Qur’an Q.S. An Nisaa. In collecting the data, the writer applied documentation method. The several steps are done to analyze the data such as reading and collecting the data. In analyzing the form of compound word, the step is analyzing by employing the tree diagram. Based on the analyzed data taken from the English Translation of Al- Qur’an there are two findings. The first finding shows that there are 72 100 data of compound words, consist of noun compound 14 or 19.4 , verb compound 38 or 52.8 , adjective compound 8 or 11.1 and preposition compound 12 or 16.7 . The second finding shows the meaning of compound word consists of transparent meaning 43 or 63.8 and opaque meaning 26 or 36.2 . Total is 72 100 . From the analysis, it can be concluded that the writer found all the variations of the forms of compound word and the meaning of compound word from the English translation of Al- Qur’an.

2. An Analysis of Compound Words Used in Information Technology

Facilities Semantics Approach The second study made by Toni Kurniawan 2008 entitled An Analysis of Compound Words Used in Information Technology Facilities Semantics Approach. This research discusses about the usage of language of manual book of handphone and Microsoft XP. However, the researcher focuses on the used of compound words. The theories used are the O’Grady and Dobrovolsky’s and the Palmer’s theories. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer applied the reading and collecting. The several steps are done to analyze the data. In analyzing the forms of compound words, the steps are: analyzing with employing the tree diagram, analyzing the type, analyzing by paraphrasing. In analyzing the meaning, the steps are: using the features of meaning, determining the literal meaning, classifying the meaning into opaque and transparent meaning. The research paper result, there are 27 data from two manual books of handphone and Microsoft XP. The results are: 1 the most common compound forms are: noun compound 19 data, adjective compound 5 data, and verb compound 3 data. 2 the most compound meaning are: transparent meaning 20 data and the rest is opaque meaning 7 data.

3. Nurul Aini Sapurtri, Stress Production of Compound Words by