Abstract
The title of this study is “Morphosyntactic Study on English Derivational Suffixes Forming Adjectives with Reference to the Twilight”. This study discusses the combination of morphology and syntax called morphosyntax. Morphology is the study about word formation; meanwhile syntax is the study about sentence structure. This study mainly aims at finding out the derivational suffixes forming adjectives and the syntactic functions of the adjective found in the novel Twilight. The data of this study were taken from a novel entitled Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Library research method was applied in this study in collecting data. It was done by collecting the derivational suffixes forming adjectives, copying the data, and classifying the derivational adjectives found in the novel. The collected data in this study were analyzed using descriptive qualitative method. The main theory applied in this study is the theory of Morphology and Syntax proposed by Quirk, et al (1985). The result of the analysis shows that there were derivational suffixes that can change the word class from noun and verb into adjective. There are ten suffixes found, they are suffix -ful, -able, -ish, -ous, -al, -ic, -less, -y, -ive, -ly. Meanwhile, for the syntactic functions there are two types found, they are predicative and attributive.
Highlights
Background of the StudyLanguage is used for communication
5.1 Derivational Suffixes According to Quirk, et al (1985), there are 10 suffixes forming adjectives, they are -ful, -able, -ish, -ous, -al, -ic, -less, -y, -ive, -ly
Based on the analysis about the derivational suffixes forming adjectives and the syntactic function, it can be concluded that there are ten suffixes that are attached to the base to form new words, they are suffix -ful, -able, -ish, ous, -al, -ic, -less, -y, -ive, -ly
Summary
Communication is an important aspect in our daily life. We use language to communicate with people around us. There are lots of languages in the world, one of them is English. English needs more attention because it is used in various fields and it becomes an interesting object to be learned by the people especially in many countries who do not use English as their first language. To understand English well we have to know about the aspect of the language itself. One of the important aspects is grammatical aspect which is divided into four linguistic levels; they are phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics
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