IJOLTL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2021): September

Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes in Songlyrics of Lewis Capaldi

Yastanti, Unpris (Unknown)
Lestari, Indri Diah (Unknown)
Rohati, Titi Dewi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Sep 2021

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify derivational and inflectional morphemes in song lyrics of Lewis Capaldi. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to know the affixation process in the song lyrics, to classify derivational and inflectional morphemes, and to know the most dominant between derivational and inflectional morphemes in the song lyrics of Lewis Capaldi. The method of this research used descriptive qualitative. The object of this research was taken from the song lyrics of Lewis Capaldi’s album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent as the first album. The result of this research shows: (1) there are 42 words suffixes such as -ing, -ed, -s, -ness, -able, -ly and one-word prefix re- (2) There are 29 inflectional morphemes and 67,44% while derivational morpheme occurs 14 times and 32,56%, it means inflectional morpheme is the most dominant than derivational morpheme.

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ijoltl

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Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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IJOLTL invites original manuscripts in the fields of language, language teaching, linguistics, and applied linguistics. Although articles are written in English, the IJOLTL welcomes studies dealing with the teaching of languages other than English as well. Research on culture of various perspectives ...