A Morphological Study on Word Formation of ERP Software Terms in www.wiley.com

ABSTRACT

In the end of this year, computer technology has increased. Because of it, technology is very closely related to communication. Computer is also one instrument of media in communication, which makes human appreciate not only on information but also knowledge in the earth. In addition, information can open our mind about anything that we can find in this world. Moreover, technology development creates language with more evolution and modern use. Therefore, increasing language in technology era is one of the phenomena that ought to be considered as part of linguistics or student studies about language. One branch of linguistics that becomes topic will be discussed in this study is morphology. This branch concerns with the word form in which there is interrelationship among words. It means that morphology contains form and word then they create the meaning in language. The process on how the words form terms especially the software terms becomes the topic of this study.

The study used descriptive qualitative research. In this case the phenomenon observed is new words of technology namely software terms. Moreover, the software terms are in business application software. Additionally, the purposes of this study are to identify the kinds of word formation and the type which mostly used in ERP software terms. The data source of this study is the book of IT company website entitled “ERP making it happen”. The data are analyzed based on Ingo Plag 2003. There are two steps to analyze the data namely explaining the word formation obtained from a book of the website to give more understanding about the process of word formation made. The second is discussing the result of the data analysis and the next is concluding.

The result of this study shows three categories of word formation namely affixation, non-affixation and compounding. Affixation is kind of derivation comprising two categories namely prefix and suffix. Non-affixation is covering three major problems as conversions, prosody morphology and abbreviations and acronyms. In addition, compounding is mostly used in the data to create a new word. This is explained into four categories namely nominal, adjectival, verbal and neoclassical compound. The nominal compound becomes the dominant type namely endocentric compounds in which the meaning head of the compound is inside the combined words.

This study proposes the suggestion for others researcher who concern with word formation to use Plag’s theory and to use different software terms or other fields as their research object.