Morphological Analysis of Compound Adjectives in Sentences in Brooke's Heartland

Abstract

This research was aimed at finding out the patterns of compound adjectives used in Heartland novel and the way on how Brooke (2001) developed them in her writing. To reach the objective, the writer focused on attributive adjectives in every sentence. Content analysis approach was applied to analyze the data. The writer found that there are eight patterns based on the morphological processes happened. Seven of those patterns agree with theory by Delahunty and Garvey (2010), while one pattern remaining includes irregular compound adjective. The eight patterns of compound adjectives consist of: A-A (54); Adv-A (11); A-N (5); N-A (5); V-N (2); P-N (1); V-A (1); and irregular compound adjective (2). Furthermore, Brooke (2001) wrote those compound adjectives in some different ways: putting commas (,), giving hyphen (-), ordering according to the rules, putting space, or writing closely. At the end, these findings are expected to give contribution to language learning, specifically writing descriptive paragraph. Students will have more detailed and vivid writing which can arise the emotional feelings of the readers only by imitating and adjusting the pattern and the way of writing compound adjectives. Keywords: Morphology; Compound Adjective; Pattern