The objectives of this research are to describe the compound and identify its kinds in
Basemah language. Compound is words formed by combining roots, and the much smaller
category of phrasal words, that is items that have internal structure of phrases but function
syntactically as words. Compounds cannot be connected by conjunction (McCharty, 2002).
This research employed a qualitative research design, as suggested by Sugiyono that
qualitative is an artistic method because the process of the research is about art and it is
called interpretive method because the result of data research is about interpretation of data
which are found in the field (2013:7-8). Therefore, this study uses a descriptive method in
describing the finding of the data. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative
method. The result of this research shows that compounding in Basemah language is
distinguished based on its structures: noun-adjective, noun-noun, noun-verb and compound
with certain words that relate to Endocentric compound, exocentric compound and
copulative compound
