An Analysis of Word Formation Process in the Text of COVID-19

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to analyze how the Director of World Health Organization formulates the significant morphemes/morphology regarding health and COVID-19 preventions, 2) to analyze how the Director of World Health Organization uses word formation process on health and COVID-19 preventions in the text, and 3) to analyze the major roles of morphology on health and COVID-19 preventions in the text. This research is the quantitative and the qualitative research. The analysis of this research consist of descriptive and qualitative modes of linguistic interpretation and discussion. 

            The findings of this research were as follows:

            1.The formation of significant morphemes on health and COVID -19 prevention in the text were used in the text consisted of1) coinage words, 2) inflectional words, 3) derivational words, 4) inflectional & derivational words, 5) compounding words, and 6) lexical words, The most of words used repeatedly in the text are item 5 (cases), followed by the item 8 (virus), and the item 89 (community).

1. The word formation process on health and COVID-19 preventions in the text1) found in this study consisted of 4 coinage words, 2) 19 inflectional words, 3) 16 derivational words, 4) 4 inflectional & derivational words, 5) 22 compounding words, and 6) 24 lexical words. When considering each aspect, it was found that the lexical words are first ranked, followed by compounding words, and the lowest percentage of words used in the text are coinage words and inflectional & derivational words.


2. The significant allomorphs regarding health and COVID-19 preventions in the text are mostly the s-plurals-/s/, /z/, and /iz/ and the ed-past tense-/t/, /d/, and /id/.

                 In further study, it should be more analytical study of special academic term in text such as medical, physician and so on and of word meaning in special term in text.