Abstract
Word formation occurs when we want to form new meaning, word class, and grammatical need. Morpheme is defined as the smallest meaningful unit of a language. This study to purpose to explain the errors that Libyan students made in using derivational morphemes, to explain why they make such errors and to find the solutions to overcome these errors. Research design in this study is qualitative research. Data in the form of quotes from documents, field notes, and interviews or excerpts from videotapes, audiotapes, or electronic communications are used to present the findings of the study. Based on the findings and discussion, the conclusion of this research as follows: The errors made by Libyan students in Semarang city in using derivational morphemes is varied from one student to another student, from the omission, addition, misordering and misformation, about the prefix and suffix. The contribution made to this study is by knowing the number of errors that occur in Libyans in English.
Highlights
IntroductionWord formation occurs when we want to form new meaning, word class, and grammatical need
Word formation occurs when we want to form new meaning, word class, and grammatical need. Meaning in this sense is to form new meaning from the previous one, like the word characteristic is created by adding the suffix -istic to the base character
Based on the research result in this study, it is known that the errors made by Libyan students in Semarang city in using derivational morphemes variated, from the omission, addition, misordering and misformation, about the prefix and suffix
Summary
Word formation occurs when we want to form new meaning, word class, and grammatical need. Meaning in this sense is to form new meaning from the previous one, like the word characteristic is created by adding the suffix -istic to the base character. The meaning of the word becomes the opposite of the meaning of the base word. Word class is to changing the part of speech, example the word characteristic. The suffix -istic change the part of the speech from a noun “character” to be an adjective “characteristic”. The grammatical is to indicate syntatic or semantic relations between different words in a sentences, like in waits.
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