The use of inflectional morpheme in Charles Dicken's Oliver Twists

Hartanti, Risna (2006) The use of inflectional morpheme in Charles Dicken's Oliver Twists. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

Generally, the English word is formed by the smallest meaningful unit parts of utterance which are called morphemes. There are two kinds of morphemes in English. They are bound morpheme and free morpheme. Bound morpheme may be inflectional or derivational in nature. Inflectional morpheme is a morpheme that never changes the class of base to which it is attached, while derivational morpheme is a morpheme that usually but not always changes the class of base to which it is attached. In this research, the researcher focuses on inflectional morphemes only. In order to get better understanding about inflectional morphemes, this study just picks out three aspects to discuss, namely,the kinds of inflectional morpheme, the characteristics of inflectional morpheme,and the morphological processes undergone by the words where the inflectional morpheme exists. To conduct this research, the researcher used descriptive method because this method is regarded more suitable with the problems of this research.This method is used with some steps: collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data.The data of this research are inflectional morphemes found in words. The words intended are arranged in the form of sentences. The data are taken from the novel Oliver Twists written by Charles Dickens. In doing this research, the researcher applies total sampling, because the total number of the data is only 228morphemes in 76 sentences. The result of this research shows that some of the problems are not found in the data, such as morpheme of gender. Moreover, the percentage of the use of inflectional morphemes is as follows: third person singular morpheme 2 (0,88%),past tense morpheme 130(57,02%), past participle morpheme 20(8,77%),progressive morpheme 2 (0,88%), plural morpheme 57 (25%),possessive morpheme 9(3,95%),comparative morpheme 3 (1,32%),superlative morpheme 5 (2,19%), and morpheme of gender 0 (0%).

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