CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of Problem

A compound is a word which consists of two or more words. For

example, the Malay compound mata-hari ‘sun’ is a word which consists of

two words: mata ‘eye’ and hari ‘day’. Compounds are subject to
phonological

and morphological processes, which may be specific to compounds or

may be

shared with other structures, whether derived words or phrases; we

explore

some of these, and their implications, in this chapter. The words in a

compound retain a meaning similar to their meaning as isolated words,

but

with certain restrictions; for example, a noun in a compound will have a

generic rather than a referential function: as Downing (1977) puts it, not

every man who takes out the garbage is a garbage

man.

B. Problem Of Formulation

1. What is Compound of translation?

2. What types of Compound?

3. What the Compound of lexical categories?

4. What the Compound noun?

C. Objective

1. To find out about compound of translation

2. To find out the types of compound

3. To find out the example of compound

4. To find out the compound noun

CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

A. Understanding of Compound of Translation

The meaning of a compound is usually to some extent compositional,

though it is often not predictable. For example, popcorn is a kind of corn

which pops; once you know the meaning, it is possible to see how the
parts

contribute to the whole – but if you do not know the meaning of the whole,

you are not certain to guess it by looking at the meaning of the

parts.

B. Types of Compound
 There are 3 types of compound
namely:

1. Synthetic (verbal) compounds = The synthetic compound (also

called ‘verbal compound’) is characterized by a co-occurrence

of

particular formal characteristics with particular restrictions

on

interpretation.

2. Incorporation compounds = In some languages, incorporation

words resemble compounds: for example, both a verb and

an

incorporated noun may exist as independent words. Bybee

(1985)

comments on this, but suggests that even where the two parts
may

be independently attested words, an incorporation word

may

different from a compound in certain

ways.

3. Repetition compounds = reduplication is sometimes described as

a

compounding process, because each part of the resulting

word

corresponds to an independently attested

word.

C. SYNTHETIC (VERBAL) COMPOUNDS

On present-day english (PE) word formation, compound nouns of

the

form Noun + Verb-ing:

 for example :

Noun + Verb-ing

Cityplanning

Housekeeping

Letter writing

And compound nouns of the form Noun +

Verb-er

for example:

Noun + Verb-er

Dishwasher

Taxi driver

Watchmaker

D. INCORPORATION COMPOUNDS

Incorporation is a process in word formation by which a compound is

created by affixing or infixxing a noun to a

verb.

For example:

Baby-sit
 House-hunt
Sleep-walk

E. REPETITION COMPOUNDS

For some purposes, we could not avoid repeat some words in

expressing

our opinions. Sometimes it is used to emphasize the point, and enhance

the

speaker’s view.

For example:

• “I felt happy because i saw the others were happy and because
i

knew i should feel happy, but i wasn’t really

happy.

Four repetitions of the word “Happy” but every time the word is

functioning in different ways.

1. He feels happy

2. Others feel happy

3. He is being forced into happines (is he actually

happy?)

4. The truth: He is actually not happy at all.

This sentence is also a great example of a sentence that starts in one

place

and ends in anothe. We start with the beliefe in the narrator’s happiness,
 but

by the end, we are surprised to find that the only feels like he should be
happy

rather than actually feeling true happiness. The sentence has been a
journey

that has taken us somewhere, from a started truth to reversing that

truth.

F. The compounding lexical category

noun verb adjective

Skin-deep
noun machinegun Friend

verb thinktank Stir-fry (?) ?

adjective high school Dry-clean(?) low-ball Red-hot

‘the V+N pattern is unproductive and limited to a few lexically listed

items, and the N+V pattern is not really

productive

G. Compound Words

Compound words are formed when two words are joined together to

create a new word that has entirely new

meaning.

For example:

Sun and Flower are two different words, but when use together, they

form another word sunflowers.

 These words are formed by either adding or not using the two words
as a

single term. The spelling of the two words is not necessarily changed
when

they are joined together, but the definition becomes

unique.

Compound words are formed when two smaller words combine to

form a

new word, as in these

examples:

• Mail + box = mailbox

• Milk + shake = milkshake

• Note + book = notebook

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CHAPTER III
 CLOSING

H. Conclusion

Comparatively little theoretical work has been done on compounds.

This

is because compounds tend to be less phonologically or morphologically

active than derived words, and less syntactically active than phrases:

compounds are relatively inert.

I. Resources

compoundsandwordtrees.pdf

Fabb-compounds.pdf

https://thejohnfox.com/repetition-examples/ downloaded on saturday at

13:45

wib

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/noun-incorporation downloaded on

saturday at 18:38 wib

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