COMPOUNDING FORMATION OF TAMIANG LANGUAGE

This paper describes preliminarily the compounding formation of Tamiang language. This paper is limited to the description of Tamiang Hulu Dialect (THD). The data used in this research are analyzed by using the structural model of IC analysis proposed by Carl James. This research has been limited to a synchronic study of language due to the time constraint, cost, and data availability. Furthermore, the researcher followed the Item and Arrangement (IA) process due to its strength and process. IA is a morpheme-based approach of word formation. IA also applies the IC analysis for the complex form of word. Besides, IA focuses on the process rather than the product. This research followed Qualitative method. The findings shows that THD has endocentric, exocentric, copulative, and “special” semantic types of compounding. THD has noun compounding with noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition as non-heads. Then verb compounding occurred with verb also as a non-head. THD has both LHHR and RHHR headedness