A Morphological Analysis of Compound Adjectives in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Abstract

This study analyzes morphology by classifying compound adjectives contained in the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from J.K. Rowling using a qualitative descriptive method used to analyze the structural patterns of compound words and explain their linguistic role in the text so that in the data collection process, the morphological framework from Carstairs-McCarthy (2017) is applied to analyze and classify the whole in form compound properties that appear where as many as 48 data are successfully identified and then grouped into three main types, namely Adjective + Adjective (AA), Noun + Adjective (NA), and Preposition + Adjective (PA). In type AA, which is often found with the number is 28 data (58.3%), then in NA there are 18 data (37.5%), and PA only 2 data (4.2%). For example, "ice-cold" includes the Noun + Adjective (NA) pattern which indicates that nouns can clarify the meaning of adjectives more specifically while the combination of Adjective + Adjective (AA) such as "golden-brown" is used to improve the accuracy of descriptions so that overall this study indicates that compound adjectives have an important role in showing productivity in the morphological process of English so that by analyzing structure and distribution, so that the understanding of the determination of morphological theory in literary data becomes clearer and at the same time indicates that the pluralization process can enrich the expressive power of English vocabulary.