Word Formation Process of Sport Terms in Jakarta Post’s Articles

Abstract

A new language and term use new words that we can relate to the one of linguistics branches of the morphological aspect namely word formation process. THe aims of this research are to describe the word formation types in sport terms found in the articles of The Jakarta Post, to explore the process of word formation in sport terms found in the articles of The Jakarta Post, and to find out the most dominant word formation process used in sport terms found in the articles of The Jakarta Post.This study uses qualitative method. The data are taken from from 11 January 2023 until 8 February 2023 in which there are 5 articles of the sport. The results show that there are five types of word formation process appeared in the sport terms of The Jakarta Post, they are Derivation (76%), Compounding (12.73%), Borrowing (7.28%), Acronyms (2.54%) and Backformation (1.45%). There are 13 processes of word formation found in the sport articles of The Jakarta Post. The processes are: (1) verb + -ing = noun (2) Noun + -ship = noun (3) Verb + -s (4) Verb + -ed, (5) Noun + -ment (6) verb + -er (7) Noun + -s = plural noun (8) Noun + -al = adjective (9) Adjective + -ly (10) Verb + -ion = noun (11) Noun + -ian = adjective or noun (12) Noun + -y = adjective and noun (13) Un + verb = negative verb. Most of the derivations are in the form of suffixes. Derivation especially in suffix form is the most dominant word formation process in The Jakarta Post of the sport articles.