Abstract
This study entitled The Morphological Processes of Noun Forming Derivational Affixes in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol aims to analyze the word class of base forms and derivational affixes forming nouns used in a fiction novel. The data were taken from the novel entitled A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens in 1843 by applying documentation method and note-taking techniques. The technique of analyzing data was done by classifying the derivational affixes forming nouns according to type of affixes and reducing the words containing derivational affixes that were similar. The data were analyzed by applying the theory of how new words are formed as derivations in morphology by Katamba (1993) as the main theory and the theory by Bauer (1983) as the supporting one. The findings showed that there were three classes of the base form used to produce new noun-based lexeme in the data, namely verb, adjective and noun. Types of affixes that were used were only suffixes, namely suffix –al, -er, -ar, -or, -ing, -y, -ion, -ation, -ment, -ance, and –age which are attached to verb base, suffix –ity, -th, -ness, and –ence which are attached to adjective base and suffix –y which are attached to noun base.
Highlights
Background of the StudyMorphology as a major level of linguistic analysis plays a considerable role in producing and building thousands of English words (Mhamad, 2013)
There were two types of derivational affixes found in this novel, namely word class changing affixes and word class maintaining affixes which lead to class-maintaining derivational process
There are some points which can be drawn as the conclusions of the study based on data analyzed about the noun forming derivational affixes found in the novel A Christmas Carol
Summary
Morphology as a major level of linguistic analysis plays a considerable role in producing and building thousands of English words (Mhamad, 2013). English derives a huge number of words on a daily basis from all the languages of the world and morphology gives an idea about the source of the words with rules and regulations on how to form new words. The word-formation processes in morphology can be done by affixation, conversion and compounding. There are two kinds of word-building in affixation namely inflectional process and derivational process. This study is concerned on the derivational process. This study is focused on the derivational affixes which form nouns in the novel entitled A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens in 1843
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