A comparative study on verb-formation processes in English and Indonesian

Vitarini, Kresensiana (2007) A comparative study on verb-formation processes in English and Indonesian. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

In English, there are eight parts of speech, namely noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. While, there are ten parts of speech in Indonesian, such as noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb, numeral, conjunction, preposition, article, and interjection. As we know that nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs make up the largest part of vocabularies both in English and Indonesian. So, the researcher is eager to analyze the processes of verb-formation both in English and Indonesian, together with their differences and similarities. English verbs may be formed by some processes, such as derivation, conversion, back-formation, compounding and clipping. Meanwhile, Indonesian verbs may be formed by derivation, conversion / transposition, compounding, reduplication and borrowing. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive method because the method is considered more suitable with the problems of the research. This method is used with some steps: collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data.While, the data of the research are English verb-formation found in Time magazine of February 6, 2006, of February 13,2006, of February 20,2006 and of February 27,2006, Indonesian verb-formation found in Intisari magazine of May 2007,of June 2007 and of July 2007. The data analysis shows that the percentage of English verb-formation processes is as follows: derivation 19 (34,55%), conversion 20 (36,36%), back-formation 3 (5,45%), compounding 11 (20%) dan clipping 2 (3,64%).Meanwhile, the percentage of Indonesian verb-formation processes is as follows: derivation 38(62,29%), reduplication 9 (14,75%), transposition 2 (3,23%), compounding 3(4,92%) dan borrowing 9 (14,75%). So, the most productive process of verb-formation is conversion process (36,36%) in English and derivation process (62,29%) in Indonesian. There are some differences and similarities of verb-formation processes between English and Indonesian. The differences of English and Indonesian verb-formation processes are as the following: English verb-formation may undergo back-formation and clipping, but Indonesian verb-formation may not. Then, Indonesian verb-formation may undergo reduplication and borrowing processes, but English verb-formation may not. Furthermore, the similarity of English and Indonesian verb-formation processes is that English and Indonesian verbs may be formed by derivation, conversion and compounding.

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