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A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS

USED IN NOVEL “THE SINGLE GIRL’S TO-DO LIST”

BY LINDSEY KELK

RESEARCH PAPER

Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education

in English Department

Proposed by:

ARUM RUMIYATI

A320110143

SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA

2015

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MOTTO

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Jim Rohn

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein

“Jika salah perbaiki, jika gagal coba lagi, tapi jika kamu menyerah, semuanya

selesai.”

Mario Teguh

“The happuness will come when you are able to make other people happy”

Friend

Do it now or you will never have time to do it.

Writter

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DEDICATION

Truly deeply do, I dedicate this research paper to:

1. My Guardian Allah SWT and the Prophet Muhammad SAW

2. My beloved father and mother (Bp. And Mm. Sunaryoto)

3. My beloved only brother and his wife

4. My beloved one in KOE

5. All of English Department Lecture

6. All of people that supporting

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Bismillahirohmanirohim

AssalamualaikumWarahmatullahiWabarokatuh

Alhamdulillahirabbil ‘alamin,thank to Allah SWT, the most gracious, the

most merciful and compassionate, so that the researcher can finish the research

paper entittleA MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS

USED IN NOVEL “THE SINGLE GIRL’S TO-DO LIST” BY LINDSEY

KELKas a partial fulfillment of the requirement of getting a Bachelor degree of

Education in English Department.

The researcher realized that this research paper could not be finished without

the help of many people. Therefore, the researcher would like to express her

appreciation to those who help her in conducting this research paper.

1. Prof. Dr. HarunJokoPrayitno, M.Hum., as the Dean of School of Teacher

Training and Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.

2. MaulyHalwatHikmat, Ph.D., as the Chair Person of English Department

of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta who has given the research

permission to conduct her research.

3. Drs. SigitHaryanto, M.Hum., as the first consultant who has been willing

to guide, advice, correct, suggest an encourage from beginning of this

research writing up to the completion.

4. NurHidayat, S.Pd.,M.pd., the second consultant, for his advice and

correction from beginning

5. All lecturers in English Department of Muhammadiyah University of

Surakarta.

6. Her beloved father and mother(Bapak and IbuSunaryoto)in Wonosobo,

who give her love, prayand support, guidance end everything in her study

and in her life. I love you.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER ............................................................................................................ i

APPROVAL ..................................................................................................... ii

ACCEPTANCE ............................................................................................... iii

TESTIMONY ................................................................................................... iv

MOTTO ........................................................................................................... v

DEDICATION ................................................................................................. vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................... vii

TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................... ix ix

LIST OF TABLE ............................................................................................. xi

ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................... xii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study................................................. 1

B. Limitation of the Study ................................................... 3

C. Problem Statement .......................................................... 3

D. Objective of the Study..................................................... 4

E. Benefit of the Study ........................................................ 5

F. Organization of the Research .......................................... 5

CHAPTER II UNDERLYING THEORY

A. Previous Study ................................................................ 6

B. The General View of Morphology .................................. 7

C. Words .............................................................................. 8

D. Compound Word ............................................................. 10

1. Types of Compound Word ....................................... 11

a. Endocentric Compounds .............................. 12

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b. Exocentric Compounds ................................ 12

c. Copulative Compound ................................. 13

2. The Criteria of Compound ....................................... 13

a. Morphological Criteria ................................. 13

b. Semantic Criteria ......................................... 14

c. Phonological Criteria ................................... 14

d. Syntectic Criteria ......................................... 14

3. The Meaning of Compound ..................................... 14

a. Transparent Words ....................................... 15

b. Opaque Words ............................................. 15

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Type of the Research ....................................................... 16

B. Object of the Research .................................................... 16

C. Data and Data Source ...................................................... 16

D. Method of Collecting Data .............................................. 16

E. Technique of Analyzing Data ......................................... 16

CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

A. Data Analysis .................................................................. 18

1. The types of compound words ................................. 18

a. Endocentric Compound .................................... 18

b. Copulative Compound ...................................... 43

c. Exocentric Compound ...................................... 46

2. The meaning of Compound Words .......................... 80

a. Transparent Meaning ........................................ 81

b. Opaque Meaning ............................................... 84

B. Discussion ....................................................................... 103

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclussion ..................................................................... 117

B. Implication ...................................................................... 118

C. Suggestion ....................................................................... 118

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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VIRTUAL REFERENCES

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LIST OF TABLE

Table 4.1 The types of compound words ......................................................... 103

Table 4.2 The meaning of compound words .................................................... 110

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ABSTRACT

Arum Rumiyati, A320110143. A Morphological Analysis of Compound Words

Used in Novel “The single Girl’s To-do List” by Lindsey Kelk. Muhammadiyah

University of Surakarta.

This research deals with compound words used in novel “The Single Girl’s

To-do List”. The research is aimed at describing the types and the meaning of

compound words thatare used in novel “The Single Girl’s To-do List”.

In achieving the objectives, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the

type of the research. The data are in form of compound words. In collecting the

data the writer uses documentation technique and the steps are reading the novel

“The single Girl To-do List”, selecting and collecting the data systematically in

accordance with the types and the meaning of compound words.

The results of this research show that there are three types of compound

words. From 798 data of compound, there are 636 data as classified as endocentric

compound, 37 data as copulative compound, and 125 data as exocentric compound.

The writer also classifies the meaning of compounds in transparent and opaque

meaning. The compounds which have a transparent meanings are 673 data, it is

about 84,34% from all of the data. While, the compounds which have opaque

meanings are 125 data or about 15,66% from the sum of data.

Keywords:compound word, compounding, type of compound