Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

Analyzing the Complex Word-form in the Indonesian Language: A Morphological Approach

Danang Satria Nugraha *

Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

This study utilized a Morphological perspective to explore the complex structure of the Indonesian language’s word forms. Indonesian was widely known for its agglutinative nature, which provided a rich area for linguistic analysis. The morphological approach pertains to studying the word formation systems that rely on the underlying morpheme structure. The objective was to unravel the diverse patterns and mechanisms that underlay the construction of complex words in Indonesian. The Indonesian-Leipzig Corpora Collection (ILCC) was utilized to gather data. The results showed that (1) the Indonesian language relied heavily on affixation as the primary means of creating complex word forms; hence, another standard morphological process was reduplication, which occurred in specific lexical and grammatical contexts; (2) these complex word forms shaped sentence structures and contributed significantly to the richness and flexibility of the larger grammatical unit; and (3) computational methods effectively identify intricate morphological patterns and concealed regularities in Indonesian word forms, supplementing traditional linguistic analyses. The study results enhanced our understanding of Indonesian morphology and contributed significant insights to the broader field of linguistic studies.

Keywords: Indonesian language, morphology, complex word-form, agglutination, word formation

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