Morphemic analysis on English complex words

Prabowo, Akbar Basar Hari (2008) Morphemic analysis on English complex words. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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This thesis discusses about the structure of word, especially English complex words. There are two questions to answer. First,what is the type of each of the morphemes which exists in the complex words? Second, what is the grammatical feature of those morphemes? To achieve the objectives, this thesis employs library research for collecting the data. There are two kinds of data: primary and secondary data. The primary data of this research ae English complex words found in magazine Asia Pasific, June 2004 edition. The secondary data are taken from the theory of morphology by Nida, the theory of morpheme by Gleason and Nasr, theory of English complex word by Akhmajian, and the theory of grammatical feature of morpheme by Gleason, Bloomfield, Falk, Fromkin, and Nasr. Further, this research uses descriptive method in order to solve the topical problems by collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data. The morphemic analysis on English complex words is divided into two.The first one is the type of each of the morphemes that exists in complex words,and the second is the grammatical feature of those morphemes. The smallest meaningful unit part of utterance is called morpheme. There two kinds of morpheme: free morphemes and bound morphemes. From the analysis, English complex words can be analyzed into smaller parts which have the meaning. They may contain a simpler word (a free morpheme) and a bound morpheme; or combination a free morpheme and more than one bound morphemes. The result of this research is that English complex words consist of one free morpheme and one or more than one bound morphemes. Then, bound morphemes are classified into inflectional and derivational morphemes. Both of them have the grammatical feature of morphemes. First, the grammatical features of inflectional morphemes are the morpheme meaning plural, past tense,third person singular, comparative, superlative, progressive, and perfect tense.Second,the grammatical features of derivational morphemes are the morpheme meaning passive, habitual performance, verbal noun or gerund, performer, receiver of action,having the ability, nominalization, adjective, adverb, and opposition.

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