PROSES PEMBENTUKAN KATA MAJEMUK DARI KANJI 月(TSUKI ; GETSU ; GATSU)

Abstract

This research is about the formation process of compound words in which one of the
components is kanji 月. Compound words is a word composed of two or more basic words.
The aims of this study is to find out the structures that form compound words, to find the
meaning of compound words and to find out the syntactic relationship that exists between
formation words components.
The research method which author use in this research is a descriptive method. To write
this thesis, firstly, the author collected the data, analyzed the data and then presented the
result.
The result is the 45 data studied is formed based on 5 patterns. The meaning obtained is
divided into two, which are conceptual meaning or literal meaning and associative meaning/
indicates a symbolism. Then, there are 8 syntactic relationships that form a compound word.
It also found 4 special cases of syntactic relationships.