<![CDATA[News on football games usually applies certain verbs very interesting to discuss. This study aims to (1) describe the form of the verbs, (2) reveal the lexical meaning and the additionalmeaning of the verbs, and (3) analyze the meaning components used in the meaning expansion of the verbs in the news. This research is a descriptive qualitative study based onthe verbs used in sentences in the football game news in Kompas and Jawa Pos and television broadcastings during October 2013 up to June 2014. The data analysis showed theresults as the following: (1) the form of the verbs includes bases, standing alone without affixes and derived forms which are specified into five forms, namely (a) obligatory affix-freebases, (b) arbitrary affix-free bases, (c) obligatory affix- bound bases, (d) repeated verbs, and (e) the verb phrases, (2) the verbs used are verbs existing in the repertoire of Indonesianvocabulary, given additional meaning with expansion that comprises the sphere of wars or fights, of animals, and of plants, (3) the meaning components used in the expansion of themeaning are gained by extending one of the meaning components, such as "tool" and "place, taking place in".]]>
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