A study on the use of inflectional morphemes and their allomorphs in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady

Lianawati, Erna (2010) A study on the use of inflectional morphemes and their allomorphs in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

	Text (ABSTRAK) ABSTRAK.pdf Download (10MB)
	Text (BAB I) BAB I.pdf Download (4MB)
	Text (BAB II) BAB II.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (16MB)
	Text (BAB III) BAB III.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (4MB)
	Text (BAB IV) BAB IV.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (24MB)
	Text (BAB V) BAB V.pdf Download (3MB)
	Text (LAMPIRAN) LAMPIRAN.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (19MB)

Abstract

This research discusses the use of inflectional morphemes and their allomorphs. In analyzing the inflectional morphemes, it deals with three problems,namely (1) the kinds of inflectional morphemes, (2) the allomorphs of each of inflectional morphemes, and (3) the conditioning factors of each of those allomorphs. Next, this research uses descriptive in nature,which involves the following steps:collecting, arranging, classifying, analyzing, and interpreting the data. Next,the source of data is the English novel The Portrait of a Lady written by Henry James. The population of this research is inflectional morphemes within words used in sentences. To obtain the sample, this research applies simple random sampling. It means the technique is done by selecting certain multiple number.The multiple number applied here is 50. Further, the data analysis shows 217 words in 151 sentences containing eight kinds of inflectional morphemes. They are 56 (25.9%) inflectional morphemes included into noun which consist of 52 with 'plural' meaning and 4with 'possessive' meaning. However,the researcher does not find any data of morphemes with 'gender' meaning. Furthermore, there are 147 (67.7%)inflectional morphemes classified into verb. They include 14 with 'third person singular' meaning, 7 with 'continuous' or 'progressive' meaning, 68 with 'past tense' meaning, and 58 with 'past participle' meaning. Moreover, 14 (6,4%)inflectional morphemes are included into adjective. They consist of 12 with 'comparative' meaning and 2 with 'superlative'meaning. While, the allomorphs of the inflectional morphemes are classified as 46(21.2%) voiceless,82 (37.8%) voiced, 6 (2.8%) hissing, 23 (10.5%) alveolar,10(4.6%) /n/,8(3.7%)/0r/, 7(3.2%)/n/, 18 (8.2%) vowel change,5(2.3%)consonant change, 2 (1%) major change, 4 (1.9%) zero change, and 6 (2.8%)suppletion. Further, the conditioning factors of those allomorphs are classified as 157(72.3%) phonologically conditioned and 60 (27.7%) morphologically conditioned.

Actions (login required)

View Item