A study on Indonesian loan words : a case of a morphological and semantic analysis

This thesis reported a research study of the morphological process and semantics analysis. The language that is analyzed is Indonesian words that far adopted from English. The writer is interested in this study because so fur it is rarely found the U1csis Umt studied morphological process and semantics. This research study analyzed only the morphological process and semantics of Indonesian loan words. The Indonesian loan words consider the words from English as the root. However, some of those loan words have undergone the morphological process. In analyzing the data, the writer used some theories. They arc: (1) morphological process. (2) meaning definition, (3) semantic change, (4) Indonesian phonemes structure, and (5) componential analysis. By using those theories, the writer found that there are the words that are: (1) borrowed as the originals, (2) borrowed with some modification, (3) changed into stem, (4) semantically changed, both restrictedly changed and expandedly changed. By conducting this study, the writer can get a deeper understanding on morphological process and semantic change. Therefore, the writer suggests a study about morphology and semantics since there are many thing that can be explored