Contoh Compound versus Phrase

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Compound versus Phrase
By Fatihurrahman/12320105

Compound and Phrase are one of an important branch of linguistics that deals with the scope of word formation. Compound versus phrase is the crucial point to recognize by learners who learn about linguistic in more deeply. So, the question is, why I am interested in doing research about this topic? Simple, because I want to know more about how the words are compounding in case of compound and how the words are used in case of phrases. In this case, I will analyze how the process of compounding two or three words which have differences part of speech into a new word with has differences in meaning before it is compounded.And also how the words compound as phrase in a sentences.
As a simple example, the words ‘flower’is noun,means‘the type of plant that can produce its flower’and ‘pot’is noun, means‘bowl used by children as a toilet’. When those words are compounded the meaning will be different. But the part of speech does not change. It is because the words ‘flower’ and ‘pot’ have the same part of speech, namely noun. When a noun (N) and noun (N) are compounded the part of speech does not change, that is the rule.And the example of phrase, ‘the bracelet is made of gold’. Made of gold is a kind of adjective phrase. More examples about kind of compound;
Adjective + Verb compound: high + light → highlight
Verb + preposition compound: break + up → breakup
Preposition + Verb compound: out + run → outrun
Adjective + Adjective compound: bitter + sweet → bittersweet
Preposition + Preposition compound: in + to → into
Noun + Noun compound: note + book → notebook
Adjective + Noun compound: blue + berry → blueberry
Verb + Noun compound: work + room → workroom
Noun + verb compound: breast + feed → breastfeed
Verb + Verb compound: stir + fry → stir-fry

Compound may be formed as one word or as two words joined with a hyphen to separate the words compounded, for instance, sunglasses and baby-sister, mother-in-law and credit cart.
The study of language is inseparable with compounds and phrases because both compound and phrase are one of the studying of linguistics.However, Compound and Phrase are confusing the learners of linguistic because both of them are not easy to distinguish because there are many cases in which compounds are quite similar to phrases with a similar meaning, for instance, ice  cream,  with  its  variable  stress  pattern,  is  a  phrase  for  some  and  a  compound  for  other speakers“ although  there  is  not denotative  difference  of  meaning”. This also can be one of my reasons why I am doing this research.

Compounds and phrases are the studying of linguistics which relates to the scope of the word formation, as I explained in the previous discussion. If there is a question,what is the importance of learning about the compound versus phrase? Simple,because the compounds are have similarity to phrase in meaning. It makes confusing the learners to indicate whether the words are compounds or not. So that’s why, this is important to explore in farther. For instance, in a certain common situation in which we might ask the question whether an expression is a single word or a syntactic phrase involves (potential) Compounds, such as the expressions backboard, backdoor, back Seatarecompounds or phrases. In this section we discuss some properties of compounds that allow us to distinguish them from phrases. Hopefully, after discussing the compound and phrase, we are able to distinguish between compounds and phrase in easily.
Here are some additional reasons why this topic is important to explore.
The first, Compounds may be compositional, meaning that the meaning of the new word is determined by combining the meanings of the parts, or noncom positional, meaning that the meaning of the new word cannot be determined by combining the meanings of the parts. For example, a blueberry is a berry that is blue. However, a breakup is not a relationship that was separated each other. And the word black birdis not compound, but it is noun phrase.


 In my research, I found many examples about phrases and compounds as I explained before. Therefore, I am going to continue analyzing the further explanation for each kind of example which I explained in the previous discussion. But in this section I will focus on analyzing compound noun and noun phrase.
 First of all, I would like firstly to analyze about Compound noun, is formed from two nouns, or an adjectives and nouns. Compound nouns should not be confused with nouns modified by adjectives, verbs, and other nouns. For example, the adjective blackof the noun phrase black bird is different from the adjective black of the compound noun blackbirdin that black of black bird functions as a noun phrase modifier while the black of blackbird is an inseparable part of the noun: a black bird also refers to any bird that is black in color while a blackbird is a specific type of bird.Structurally irregular compounds include postmodified constructions as well as exocentric constructions such as hatchback, redneck, and shithead.
Primary compounds are notable for their often idiosyncratic semantics. The meanings of such compounds do not deriveregularly from the meanings of their two components in the way attributiveness determines meaning.Thus, blackbird to manage that a bird which has black feathers and a mosquito netkeeps mosquitoes out while butterflies arecaptured using a butterfly net. Here is another set of examples
·         Milk bottle ‘bottle for containing milk
·         Milkman man who delivers milk
·         Milk-float ‘float carrying milk
·         Milk-fever ‘disease caused by lack of the calcium contained in milk
·         Milk-tooth ‘tooth present while young mammal is still drinking milk
·         Milk-weed ‘weed with sap like milk
·         Milk-tart ‘tart made with milk
While these compounds are formally regular, their meanings are with one exception listed rather than following from the principles of attribution discussed above. Those principles would simply not get anywhere near identifying for us the items symbolized by the forms: instead of the relevant meanings rely heavily on our knowledge whereby bottles contain things, men do things, floats carry things etc. In each case, the key to the meaning seems to be provided by the semantics of the head. A further example of this is milk-tartbecomes milktartis then an attributive construction rather than a primary compound.
Generative theories of word structure account for compounding indifferent ways: proposes the following phrase structure grammar:
N → {N, A, V, P} N; A → {N, A, P} A; V →P V
The desired structures are generated directly, but problems of bracketing paradoxes remain (e.g. bird-brained seems to be derived by idiosyncratic affixation to the N N compound bird brain, as there is no verb to brain meaning ‘to possess a brain ‘from which the past participle could be  derived.
It might, finally, be objected here that as a matter of principle, nouns can modify other nouns only withincompounds and not in syntactic phrases


Talks about contribution in doing a research is one of the main goals that every researcher intends to bring such as make the distinctness of some issues which essential to be described in deeply. In this case, we will talk about what contribution should be gotten after doing the research about compounds versus phrases for learners and personally for myself. The are some contribution which supposed to have after doing this research;
First of all, is knowing how to distinguish between both compound and phrase, for instance, English  is  one  of  many  languages are  able  to  make a new lexeme so as to  form not only phrases ‘black  bird’but also complex lexemessuch as ‘blackbird’, form those simple sample above, in fact there is no distinct between both types above. The problem is, there is no clear way of distinguishing between compound words and phrases (i.e. the notion of ‘word’ is not unambiguously defined). The distinction between phrase and compound therefore implies a structural ambiguity in the language such that identical concatenations can be either word or phrase. This  fact  about  English  has  shown  large  in  research  on  English  word  formation.

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