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This chapter reviews on several theories related this research. They are
research.
meaning and the context. Linguistic has many branches and one of them is
morphology. According to Spolsky and Hult (2008: 53), stated that linguists
generally contrast theory and description which the description itself comprises
languages whereas theory covers more general ideas about how language works
The students have to deal with the formation of words to master in English
morphology, it means the students or the beginners are able to separate smaller
elements to larger word with complex meaning. It called morphologically
complex words. For example, employee can be analysed as being composed of the
verb employ and the ending –ee, the adjective unhappy can be analysed as being
derived from the adjective happy by adding of the element un-. From here, the
learners can divide complex words into smallest meaningful units. It is the
morphemes. According to Lieber (2009: 35) stated that prefixes and suffixes
usually have special requirements for the sorts of bases that can be attached to.
Some of these requirements concern the phonology (sounds) of their bases, and
2.1.3 Morphology
morphology, it divides become morpheme that is how the word are formed.
Morphology is the study of word formation and the minimal meaningful units of
philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who coined it early in the
branch. Morphology as the area of grammar concerned with the structure of words
and with relationships between words involving the morphemes that compose
them is technically.
Learning English morphology is about creating new word and changing
the level of word class and it is the way the structure determines the word
meaning, the way they combine to make larger units like phrases and clauses and
the variation of new word formation in the sentences. In the morphology, it has
other focus studies such as morpheme, morph, allomorph, affixes, etc. Studying
word-formation in the first lesson is a thing that the students have to know in this
2.1.3.1 Morpheme
is the study of identify and investigate words, the internal structure, and how they
piece of a word, such as the –ed of looked. Other example such as the word dogs
consists of two units that are having meaningful word, ‘’dog’’ and ‘’dogs’’, in
here ‘’dog’’ refers a particular kind of animal, and ‘’dogs’’ with –s refers the
notion of plurality. Morphemes can be classified into “free” and “bound’’ form. The
Free morpheme can stand alone without have to add another element of word.
They can exist as independent words. They can be recognized as a meaningful word in
the one word. ‘’If they can occur by themselves a whole words, (i.e. if they can form
mono-morphemic words), then we call them as free morphemes. For instance, {house},
{albatross}, {kangaroo}, {lullaby}, {table}, etc. are free morphemes.” (Varga (2010:
50). According to Meyer (2009: 154), stated that if a morpheme is free, it can
joining together two morphemes, in this case {sand} and {box}, each of which
According to Varga (2010: 50), stated there are also morphemes which must be attached
to other morphemes within words, these are called bound morpheme. For example, the
plural morpheme {-s}, or the adverb-forming morpheme {-ly} are bound morphemes.
According to Plag (2002: 13), said some bound morphemes, for example un-, must
always be attached before the central meaningful element of the word, the so-called root,
stem, or base, whereas other bound morphemes, such as –ity, –ness, or –less, must follow
the root. Most bound morphemes are affixes. Affixes are either suffixes and prefixes.
of the word and the type of inflectional morphemes is not create the lexeme to be
a new word but it is just changing the grammatical structure. Inflectional affixes is
a suffix that can be formed as plural {-s} e.g. dogs, singular possessive {-s sg ps}
e.g. boy’s, plural possessive {-s pl ps} e.g. boys’, 3rd person present tense singular
{-s 3rd} e.g. vacates, progressive aspect{-ing} e.g. discussing, past tense aspect {-
ed pt} e.g. chewed, past participle aspect {-ed pp} e.g. visited, comparative form
of adjective {-er} e.g. bolder, superlative form of adjective {-est} e.g. boldest.
According to Kracht (2005: 84), stated that to fit a word into a syntactic
construction, it may have to undergo some changes. In English, the verb has to get
an ‘s’ suffix if the subject is third person singular. The addition of the ‘s’ does not
change the category of the verb; it makes it more specific, however. Likewise, the
addition of past tense. Adding inflection thus makes the word more specific in
This derivation can change the category of the word. According to Kracht (2005:
82), said that ‘’derivation is the only one of the parts is a word; the other is only
found in combination, and it acts by changing the word class of the host.
Examples are {anti-, dis-, -ment}.” Derivational affixes can occur at either end of
Based on Brinton’s opinion on his book (2000: 86), he stated the addition
of a derivational affix to a root produces a new word with one or more of the
clear > clarity, fuse > fusion, photograph > photography, drama >
dramatize, relate > relation, permit > permissive, impress > impression,
- An orthographic change to the root: pity .> pitiful, deny > denial, happy >
happiness;
event > eventual, post > postage, recite > recital; and
Derivational affixes that have a prefix in the word can change only the
meaning, not its class. For example showing ‘’time” e.g. {pre-} prearrange,
‘’privation’’ e.g. {a-} amoral, apolitical, asymmetric; {un-} unlock, untie, unfold,
minivan, minimall.
The prefixes that already given in the explanation above are from native
English such as after-, in-, over-, and un-, while pre-, inter-, super-, mini-, and
dis- are Latin and tri-, a-, micro-, anti-, ortho-, epi-, hyper-, peri-, schizo-, auto-,
and bio- are Greek. Suffixes have two functions, to change the meaning of the
root and to change the part of speech of the root. those changing meaning alone
include the diminutive suffixes –ling, –let, –y (in princeling, piglet, daddy), the
feminine suffixes –ess, –ette, –rix, –ine (in actress, usherette, aviatrix, heroine),
which for social and cultural reasons, are now falling out of use and the abstract
suffixes, making an abstract noun out of a concrete noun, –ship, –hood, –ism (in
derived into nouns from verb, adjective into nouns, adjective into adjective and so
on. In this analysis, the writer want to explain more about derivational affixation.
According to Andrew Carstairs and McCarthy (2002: 48), he stated that adverb,
noun, adjective, verb can be derived and change the word class.
become adverb if a word ended up by suffix –ly, for example goodly, the original
word is good which is an adjective and it is added by –ly become an adverb. Other
English has derivational processes that yield nouns with meanings such as ‘small
X’, ‘female X’, ‘inhabitant of X’, ‘state of being an X’ and ‘devotee of or expert
on X’.
For example:
- ‘small X’: -let, -ette, -ie, e.g. droplet, booklet, cigarette, doggie
historian.
Based on Andrew Carstairs and McCarthy (2002: 50), stated that nouns
derived from adjectives and from verbs are extremely numerous. It is called
For example:
Even more numerous are suffixes for deriving nouns from verbs (Andrew
For example:
According to Andrew Carstairs and McCarthy (2002: 52) stated that some
e.g. nouns belief, proof and defence. Alongside verb believe, prove,
and defend.
3. Change in a vowel.
remotish ‘rather remote’. By contrast, the prefix un- meaning ‘not’ is extremely
is so common, most dictionaries do not attempt to list all un-adjectives. This does
not mean, however, that un- can be prefixed to all adjectives quite freely. Another
negative prefix is in-, with allomorphs indicated by the variant spellings il-, ir-
some of the processes that derive adjectives from verbs straddle the divide
between derivation and inflection in a way that we have not yet encountered. The
suffixes –ed, –en and –ing, and vowel change, in passive and progressive
Suffixes that form adjectives from nouns are more numerous (Andrew
According to Andrew Carstairs and McCarthy (2002: 54), stated that most
prominent are re- and the negative or ‘reversive’ prefixes un-, de- and dis- as in
According to Andrew Carstairs and McCarthy (2002: 55), stated that verbs
derived from nouns and from adjectives are numerous. Some affixes for deriving
There are some English affixes and word classes based on Kracht (2005:
2. Un- that attached and changed from adjectives into adjectives, e.g. un-
3. Re- that attached and changed from verbs into verbs, e.g. re-establish, re-
assure.
4. Dis- that attached and changed from verbs into verbs, e.g. dis-enfranchise,
5. –ment that attached and changed from verbs into nouns, e.g. establish-
ment, amaze-ment.
6. –ize that attached and changed from nouns into verbs, e.g. burglar-ize.
7. –ism that attached and changed from nouns into nouns, e.g. Lenin-ism,
8. –ful that attached and changed from nouns into adjectives, e.g. care-ful,
soul-ful.
9. –ly that attached and changed from adjectives into adverbs, e.g. careful-ly,
nice-ly.
10. –er that attached and changed from adjectives into adjectives, e.g. nic-er,
angry-er.
Brinton (2000:86) stated that suffix has an unproductive suffix and a
productive suffix. Their productivity may range from from very limited to quite
extensive, depending upon whether they are found preserved in just a few words
According to Plag (2002: 109), stated that suffixes can be divided into these
points below:
Nominal suffixes are often employed to derive abstract nouns from verbs,
adjectives, and nouns. Such abstract nouns can denote actions, results of action, or
other related concepts, but also properties, qualities, and the like. Another large
group of nominal suffix derives person nouns of various shorts. Very often, these
meaning are extended to other, related senses that practically every suffix can be
shown to be able to express more than one meaning, with the semantic domains of
This suffix derives nouns that express an activity (or its result) as
• -al
referral, renewal. Base words for nominal –al all have their main
contain two suffixes, to the effect that all action nominal would in fact
if there are corresponding –ant adjectives. This is surely not the case,
• -ant
• -cy/-ce
nominal bases to take the syllabic variant –cy (Plag, 2002: 110).
• -dom
• -ee
stand (on a bus, for example). Due to the constraint that the referents
who has lost a limb and not the limb that is amputated. (Plag, 2002:
111).
• -eer
2002: 111).
lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense ‘winning shot’). Furthermore, -er
• -(e)ry
meaning, which is then fleshed out for each derivative on the basis of
• -ess
113).
• -ful
expressions such as a lot of, a bunch of) from nominal base words that
• -hood
113).
Noun denoting persons and places can take the suffix –an.
113).
• -ing
• -ion
verbal bases are by far the most frequent, but there is also a
to nouns without any intervening verb in –ate. These forms are found
• -ism
2002: 114).
• -ist
• -ity
ending in the suffixes –able, -al and –ic or in the phonetic string [ɪd]
base, to the effect that all –ity derivatives are stressed on the antepenult
• -ment
• -ness
restrictive than its close semantic relative –ity. The suffix can attach to
practically any adjective, and apart from adjectival base words we find
• -ship
2002: 116).
2.1.3.1.2.2.9 Verbal suffixes
• -ate
fidate.
that end in one or two unstressed syllables. If the base ends in two
• -en
• -ify
usually do not show stress shift, but some older forms do (humid –
humidify, solid – solidify). These restrictions have the effect that –ify is
2002: 117).
• -ize
Both –ize and –ify are polysemous suffixes, which can express a
(‘make (more) X’), carbonize, itemize, trustify and nazify are resultative
(‘make into X’), aerosolize and mucify are inchoative (‘become X’),
show rather complex patterns of base allomorphy, to the effect that bases
are systematically truncated (i.e. they lose the rime of the final syllable) if
they are vowel-final and end in two unstressed syllables (cf. truncated
not allowed to have identical onsets in the two last syllables. In the
• -able/-ible
forms seen to involve two different cases, which have been described
changeable can have both meanings). There are also some lexicalized
syllable. If the base does not have its stress on one of the two syllables
• -ary
• -ed
2002: 120).
• -esque
• -ful
• -ic/-ical
determined what governs the choice of one form over the other.
• -ing
verb is much less prominent than in the case of changing (Plag, 2002:
121).
• -ish
• -ive
This suffix form adjectives mostly from Latinate verbs and bound
• -less
• -ly
denoting persons, -ly usually conveys the nation of ‘in the manner of
• -ous
This suffix derives from nouns and bound roots, the vast majority
the last but one syllable or last but two syllable (the so-called penult or
• -ly
from their base words and hotly, coldly, and darkly can only have
• -wise
adverbs. The former adverb type has the meaning ‘in the manner of X,
X’. the scope of the viewpoint adverbs is not the verb phrase, but the
2.1.3.1.2.2.12 Prefixes
• A(n)-
• Anti-
• De-
• Dis-
Closely related semantically to un- and de-, the prefix dis- forms
the base verb in much the same way as clausal negation does: disagree
2002: 125).
• In-
• Mis-
to un- and in-, negation with non-does not carry evaluative force, as
can be seen from the pairs unscientific vs. non-scientific, irrational vs.
complementary opposites.
stop. The latter meaning has been extended to ‘being X, but not having
126).
• Un-
(e.g. unease, unbelief, uneducation, unrepair). Such nouns are often the
result of analogy or back-formation (e.g. educated : uneducated ::
one observed with anti- and non-, namely ‘not having the proper
2.1.3.1.3 Root
affixes. The original word is called as root. Root is always a single morpheme.
According to Kracht (2005: 81), stated that roots are ‘main’ words, those that
carry meaning. Those words or parts thereof that are not composed and must be
drawn from the lexicon. ‘’ a root is like a stem in constituting the core of the word
to which other pieces attach, but the term refers only to morphologically simple
units. For example, disagree is the stem of disagreement, because it is the base to
which –ment attaches, but agree is the root. Taking disagree now, agree is both
the stem to which dis- attaches and the root of the entire word.’’ (Aronoff and
According to Varga (2010: 51), stated in his book that ‘’If we remove all
affixes, we arrive at the absolute stem, called root (also known as base), which is
preclude, exclude, etc. the prefix {in-}, {con-}, {pre-}, {ex-}, etc. is followed by
Stem is not a single morpheme, it is a part of words that does exist before
stem. According to Aronoff and Fudeman (2010: 2), stated ‘’a stem is a base
simple, made up of only one part, or complex, itself made up of more than one
‘’A stem is that part of a word which remains if we remove the suffix or
prefix that has entered the word last. The stem is not necessarily a single
friendly, and the stem of friendly is friend, cf.’’ (Varga (2010: 51)).
2.1.3.1.5 Base
Plag (2003: 11) stated, “Base is the part of a word which an affix is attached to.’’
Some words can contain more than one base, and some bases are a bound rather
than a free morpheme. For example the base of the suffix –al in the derivative
colonial is colony, the base of the suffix –ize in the derivative colonialize is
Most bound morphemes are affixes. Affixes do not bring the core meaning
potential for substitution. A particular affix will attach to only certain roots.
According to Kracht (2005: 80), stated “Affixes are parts that are not really words
by themselves, but get glued onto words in some way.’’ Affixes in English will
change a root into different word classes in the a new context. Other example is
reconsideration, re- and –ation are both affixes, which means that they are
attached to the stem. English has two affixes, prefixes and suffixes.
2.1.3.1.6.1 Prefixes
roots. A prefixes of the word can change the opposite meaning for example, the
root is lucky while the meaning is being so blessed, then it is added the prefix –un
2.1.3.1.6.2 Suffixes
According to Varga (2010: 50), stated that ‘’Suffixes in English are inflectional
create a new lexeme and only produce another inflected variant (i.e. another
syntactic word) of the same lexeme. For example, {-s} is an inflectional suffix,
because by adding it to the stem {boy}, we get boys, which is just another
syntactic word belonging to the paradigm of boy. However, if someone adds a
lexeme boyhood, which is the starting point of a new paradigm.” The suffix can
change the word class from verb to be noun or from noun to be adjective, and
others.
2.1.3.2 Morph
morphemes. Morpheme is an abstraction and a morph has the level, the concrete
realization and the actual segment of a word that must be recognized. Sometimes
morpheme has no concrete realization even it does exist. It called a zero morph.
For example the plural fish consists of the morphemes ‘’fish’’ + ‘’fishes’’ {pl},
although the plural morpheme has no concrete realization. Other example, the
English past tense morpheme that we spell -ed has various morphs. It is realized
as [t] after the voiceless [p] of jump (e.g. jumped), as [d] after the voiced [l] of
repel (e.g. repelled), and as [ǝd] after the voiceless [t] of root or the voiced [d] of
wed (e.g. rooted and wedded). Morphs show word forms or phonetic forms. A
2.1.3.3 Allomorph
that has two or more. According to Varga (2010: 49), ‘’Allomorphs are the
positional alternants of a morpheme: they have the same meaning and are in
complementary distribution’’. Allomorph has many variants. For example, the
allomorphs. For example, the words hats, dogs, and buses. These words are
written as /hæts/, /dogz/, and /bʌsəz/, while the endings are /-s/, /-z/, and /-əz/.
these allomorphs help to differ the pronunciation of the various plural endings.
activities in the class and give a motivation to students for making them feel
happy to learn, the textbook is published with many variant contents such as
giving the colourful font and picture on the book, giving some motivation quotes
and some quizzes. The textbook really helps some students in daily school life.
communicative event. The event itself may involve oral language (for example, a
novel). Text consists of more than one sentence and the sentences combine to
type is a textual form that the sender tells to the receiver to achieve the
information and purpose in the social practice. In English, text type has many
and news item. Each text has its own social function, schematic (generic) structure
Textbook entitled: Get Along with English for Vocational High School Students
Grade XI. The writer only takes six text types, they are report, descriptive,
The researcher takes five relevance studies related this research, which the
Erlangga. The first past study was written by Yusi Ernita Sari (2016) An Analysis
Edition. She analysed the derivational affixes in the headlines column of Jakarta
descriptive data, speech or word and behaviour that can be observed by the
subject itself. She focused on collecting and analyses the derivational affixes that
be found 139 word and in the headlines column of Jakarta Post consists of four
texts that are discussed. They are 43 words (table 4.1), 30 words (table 4.2), 47
word (table 4.3), and 19 words (table 4.4). The table showed the words, bases or
roots, part of speech, derivational affixes, note and meaning. she found the
function of derivational affixes such as verb marker (6); noun marker (91);
adjective marker (27); and adverb marker (15). She found the bases or roots of
words that had been classified into the part of speech are 29 (adjective), 50 (noun),
Kilbane. She used a qualitative research and she found 656 words which attached
derivational affixes. The writer obtain the root of the words, they are 199
(adjectives), 188 (noun), 266 (verb). The third, Nurul Endang S. (2014) The
Albums. She found two kinds of morphology from fourty seven data in adele
derivational suffix (14 data / 30%), and inflection morpheme (33 data / 70%). The
English magazine such as seven noun indicators (suffixes: -er, -ment, -ness, -ity, -
ist, -ion/-ation, and –ship), five adjective indicators (suffixes: -ive, -able, -al, -est,
and –ful) and a form of prefix, namely prefix –in, one adverb indicators (suffix: –
ly), and one verb indicator (suffix: –ize). In the inflectional affixes, he found one a
noun indicator (suffix: –s), two adjective indicators (suffix: –ed, and –ing). He
also found a prefix –in which can be attached to adjective. There are sixteen kinds
of suffixes in that magazine. The fifth, Dedi Rahman Nur (2016), An Analysis of
Steve Jobs. The study discovered 69 postfixes and 9 prefixes. The foundations of
the words that has been grouped in light of the grammatical feature are 17
The writer can say this research has a correlation with some relevance
studies but they have different data. The each of researcher discussed about
derivational and inflectional affixes and they took the data from many sources
such as newspaper, novel, song, magazine, and speech. The writer in this research
took different source which is a text of English from school textbook especially
vocational high school textbook. The writer chose text of English textbook as the
data analysis because the writer wanted to analyse some derivational affixes on
the textbook. The writer assumed there are many derivational affixes that can be
found on it. In short, this research is about analysing derivational affixes in order
textbook.