The Morphological Analysis of Derivational Suffixes in the Novel the Fault in Our Stars

Abstract

The title of this undergraduate thesis is The Morphological Process of Derivational Suffixes in the novel “The Fault in Our Stars”. This study focuses on words with derivational suffixes; the use of derivational suffixes causes a change in the meaning of word. The data of this study were taken from the novel “The Fault in Our Stars”. This novel has an interesting story and contains words with derivational suffixes. The data were collected by observing and reading the novel intensively. The data were grouped based on word classes and were analyzed for any change in meaning. This thesis applies the theory of Morphology proposed by Plag (2002). This theory is used to analyze words with suffixes and to know about change in meaning of the word using derivational suffixes. The result of this analysis shows that 226 words contain nominal suffixes, 171 words contain adjectival suffixes, 170 words contain adverbial suffixes and 2 words contain verbal suffixes.