E-Link Journal
Vol 10 No 2 (2023): E-LINK JOURNAL

MORPHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF AFFIXES IN IMAGINE DRAGONS LYRICS

Wulandari, Herlina (Unknown)
Al Fauzi, Fatih (Unknown)
Ismaili, Ismaili (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2023

Abstract

This study was implemented to analyze the form of affixes’ changes in three Imagine Dragons songs as a study source for intermediate English students. This study applied qualitative corpus analysis initially the data results are presented in tabular form. Indeed, presented a detailed description of the data found. This research used document analysis to collect data where documents were taken from electronic form specifically at the website address lirikterjemahan.id. The results of this study show 39 words that have an affixation process in three songs, 35 (89,7%) inflectional affixes, and 4 (10,3%) derivational affixes were found. First, inflectional affixes do not change the part of speech but change the grammatical function belonging to the suffix –s as plural, -es as plural, -‘s as possessive, -ing as progressive (continuous), and -ed as past. Second, derivational affixes that can change the part of speech belonging to noun suffixes change the word to a noun in the suffix –ness, -dom, -er, and adjective suffixes change the word to an adjective in the suffix -less.  Keywords: Morphology, Derivational affixes, Inflectional affixes, Song lyric

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Journal Info

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elink

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

E-Link Journal is open acces, peer reviewed journal that publishes original research and literature reviewes on English education that focuses on educational language, literature and ...