Abstract
This study is entitled Morphosyntactic Analysis on English Inflectional Affixes with Special Reference to The Jakarta Post. It is aimed at finding out the types of inflectional affixes and explaining how the inflected words found in The Jakarta Post are represented in tree diagram. The data of this study were taken from 31 articles related to business in The Jakarta Post printed edition published on 14th, 15th, and 16th of June 2017. Observation method was applied in this study for collecting data. Firstly, Articles about business were chosen. Secondly, the articles were read intensively one by one in order to find out the affixes occurring on the articles. Thirdly, every affix was marked and noted down. Lastly, those affixes were classified into inflectional affixes. The data were analyzed descriptively based on the theories of inflectional affixes proposed by Francis Katamba (1993) in his book entitled Morphology as the main theory and the theory of tree diagram by Quirk at al. (1985) in his book entitled A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language presented as supporting theory. Based on the analysis, suffixes found in the articles are the suffix –s in noun, the suffix –s in verb, the suffix –ed, the suffix –ing, the suffix –er, and the suffix –est.The suffix –s in noun and suffix –ed are the most frequent types that appearing in the data. The finding also shows that there are five syntactic functions found in the data; they are subject, predicate, object, complement, and adverbial. The inflected word as predicate appears more frequently than the other syntactic functions.
Highlights
Background of the StudyLinguistics has four branches of study; they are phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax
This study provides the useful information to the readers to enlarge their understanding of the types and functions of inflectional affixes morphologically and syntactically in order to help them make good sentences and understand the meaning of the sentences
Result and Discussion There are two main focuses discussed in this study, they are; the types of inflectional affixes occurring in the data and how the inflected words were represented in tree diagram, by using the main theory proposed by Katamba (1993) and theory of tree diagram found in a book proposed by Quirk et al (1985)
Summary
Linguistics has four branches of study; they are phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax. In learning language it needs to be concerned with words and their functions in a sentence. There are four word classes that have different functions; they are verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. By adding an affix to a word it can either change the meaning or class of a word or modify a form of a word so that it can fit into a particular syntactic slot. People sometimes still get confused about the meaning or class of a word when its form is changing. The study of Morphology and Syntax are related to the phenomena mentioned above
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