Compound Words Found in Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees (Sri Chinmoy)

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This research deals with compound words used
in Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees by Sri
Chinmoy. The case is many people did not recognize
and aware of using it. This research is trying to
describe the types and the structure of compound
words and supported by two theories, those are Booij
(2007) and McCarthy (2002). In achieving the
objectives, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative
as the type of the research. The data are in the form of
compound words. In collecting the data the writer
applies documentation technique and the steps are
reading attentively, selecting, collecting, and
classifying the data systematically by following the
types and the structure of compound words. The results
of this research show that there are three kinds of
compound words. From 390 the data of compound
words, there are 348 data are classified as a compound
noun, 20 data are classified as a compound adjective,
and 22 data are classified as a compound verb. In this
research, it is found that only two ways in the spelling
of compound words are solid and hyphenated. There
are three sub-classes of compound words found in this
study those are endocentric compound, exocentric
compound, and copulative compound.