A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES

IN EMMA WASTON SPEECH

Qoriyatun hafizah, Alifian

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui jenis morfem infleksional dan morfem
yang paling dominan muncul dalam pidato Emma Waston . Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian
kualitatif yang mengadopsi analisis data yang dirancang oleh Miles & Huberman (1994) yang
meliputi reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil dari penelitian ini
adalah, Khusus untuk afiks infleksional, afiks yang muncul sebanyak delapan puluh lima (56)
sufiks. Tidak ada awalan. Ada tujuh (6) jenis sufiks yang berbeda, seperti; -s/es menandakan
jamak, -ed menandakan past tense, -ed menandakan
past participle, -'s menandakan posesif, -ing menandakan progresif, -est menandakan
superlatif. Akibatnya, sufiks –s/es jamak menjadi sufiks paling dominan yang digunakan dalam
pidato Emma Waston. Karena analisis tulisan ini masih terbatas pada morfem infleksional dalam
pidato Emma Waston, maka peneliti lain disarankan untuk melakukan penelitian tambahan pada
Morfem Turunan dengan menggunakan lirik lagu atau novel sebagai sumber data yang
Berbeda.

Kata Kunci: Analisis Morfologi, Morfem infleksional, Pidato

Abstract: This research aims to investigate types of inflectional morphemes and the most
dominant morphemes appearing in Emma Waston Speech. This study is a qualitative research that
adopted the data analysis designed by Miles & Huberman (1994) which covers data reduction,
data display, and conclusion drawing. The result of this study is that, In particular, For the
inflecttional affixes, the affixes that occured were eighty-five (56) suffixes. There were no prefixes.
There were seven (6) different types of suffixes, such asa; -s/es indicating plural, -s/es indicating
third person singular, -ed indicating past tense, -ed indicating past participle, -‘s indicating
possessive, -ing indicating progressive, -est indicating superlative. As a result, suffixes –s/es plural
become the mostt dominant suffixed which are being used in Emma waton’s speech. Since the
analysis of this paper is still limited on the inflectional morphemes in Emma waston’s speech, the
other researcher are suggesed to do additional research on Derivational Morphemes using song’s
lyric or novel as a different data resources.
Keywords: Morphological analysis, Inflectional Morpheme, Speech

1. Introduction
Without language means, people are ready to live without communication since language is a
human communication tool to deliver information, ideas, and thoughts, and even portray
personality or people’s backgrounds explicitly and implicitly in most human life aspects
such as economics, education, politics, cultures, and many more (Cahyaningrum, 2021.
Rabiah, 2018). In light of this phenomenon, language, particularly English, is recognised as
an essential component of human life. It means that English learners should be able to
acquire and then know the authentic pronunciation, accent, intonation, rhythm, and
expression of their native language (Khusna & Indriani,2021;Sayogie & Adbaka, 2022).
As well as gramatical sturcture, it is kind of hard for some people to understand about the
stucture of english language, trough this article we try to analyze about using structure in
Emma Waston speech.
English is an International language. According to (Mastin, 2012), English is the only language
that the majority of people in practically every part of the world speak and understand”. It
alludes to a language that both native and second-language speakers acquire and use on a
global scale. There are around 1.5 billion people who speak English and approximately 360
million use English as their first language.
2. Method
 Research Approach
Speech variation is an essential concept in pragmatics that emphasizes the
diversity of speaking styles used by speakers in various communicative situations.
Variation in speech observes how speakers use language differently depending on
factors such as social context, culture, social status, and communicative goals. Thus,
communication varies depending on the situation and the preferences of language
producers (Heylighen & Dewaele, 2002. Ismail, 2023). In the present research, the
researcher applied a descriptive qualitative research design since the data were analyzed
descriptively.

Instruments

During the data collection process, the researcher was the key instrument since the
researcher took roles as a a data collector, a data interpreter, and a result reporter. Besides,
the researcher applied observation table and document analysis as other instruments to
support collecting the data. Furthermore, the researcher employed two types of resources;
primary and secondary data. The primary data was taken from Elon Musk's speech
transcript, Meanwhile, several other references were used as secondary data to support the
findings.

Data anaylisis

In analyzing the data from the resources, the researcher adopted the data analysis design of
Miles & Huberman (1994). This data analysis design deals with three procedures: data
reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. For this study, in the first step or data
reduction, the words that contained affix was selected and classified It was suffix, The affixes
detected in the speech were then included into the table in the second round of data
display. This list helped the researcher draw the conclusion. The last step was drawing the
conclusion. The conclusion was drawn based on the result of the two previous steps.

Result Finding.
The data collection of this research was taken entirely from the script of Emma Waston’s speech in
the HeForShe campaign 2014 UN.
Table 1 Inflextional morphems of plural markes –s

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
1 boys boy -s Plural

2 parents parent -s Plural

3 feminists feminists -s plural

4 mentors mentor -s Plural

5 influences influence -s Plural

6 ambassadors ambassador -s plural

7 months month -s Plural

8 rights right -s Plural

 9 plays play -s plural

10 elements element -s Plural

11 friends friend -s Plural

12 feelings. feeling -s plural

13 sports sport -s Plural

14 constitutes constitute -s Plural

15 policies policy -s plural

16 assumptions assumption -s Plural

17 decisions decision -s Plural

18 girlfriends girlfriend -s plural

19 opportunities opportunity -s Plural

20 words word -s Plural

21 years Year -s plural
doubts doubt
22 girls girl -s Plural

23 news new -s Plural

24 benefits benefit -s plural

25 daughters daughter -s Plural

26 Words Word -s Plural

27 Things thing -s Plural

28 Parts part -s plural

Table 2 inflectional morphems of possessive marker ‘s

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
1 women's Women ‘s Possessive
2 Father’s Father ‘s Possessive
3 Mother’s Mother ‘s Possessive
4 Sister’s Sister ‘s Possessive

Table 3 inflectional morphems of past tense marker –ed

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
 1 Appointed Appoint -ed Past tense

2 Confused Confuse -ed Past tense

3 started Start Ed Past tense

4 decided Decide Ed Past tense

5 wanted Want Ed Past tense

Table 4 inflectional morphems of past participle marker –ed and -an

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
1 Spoken Speak -en Perfect tense
2 Sexualized Sexualiz -ed Perfect tense
3 Seemed Seem -ed Perfect tense

4 Received Receive -ed Perfect tense

5 perceived perceive -ed Perfect tense

6 Realized Realize -ed Perfect tense

7 called call -ed Perfect tense

Table 5 inflextional morphems of plural mareker -ing

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
1 Launching Launch -ing Progressive

2 inviting invite -ing progressive

3 Reaching Reach -ing Progressive

4 Choosing Chose -ing Progressive

5 Changing Change -ing progressive

6 Being Be -ing Progressive

7 Defining Define -ing progressive

8 Doing Do -ing Progressive

9 Asking Ask -ing progressive

10 Struggling Struggle -ing Progressive

11 inviting invite -ing progressive
Table 6 inflectional morphems -est

Afixes
No word based Note
suffix
1 biggest big -est superlative

DISCUSSION
The kinds of affixes that were used in Emma waston’s speech
For the inflecttional affixes, the affixes that occured were eighty-five (65) suffixes.
There were no prefixes. There were six (6) different types of suffixes, such asa; -s/es
indicating plural, -s/es indicating third person singular, -ed indicating past tense, -ed
indicating past participle, -‘s indicating possessive, -ing indicating progressive, -est indicating
superlative.
From the result of the data analysis, the researcher found that the most dominant
suffix that used in Emma Waston’s speech are suffixes that indicating plural marker –s (28), while
the least data are suffixes that indicating past participle marker –ed (5) and suffixes that
indicating superlative marker –est (1). There is no suffixes that indicating comparative
marker –er in the Emma Waston’s speech. Compare to the previous study, there were eight
different types of suffixes with plural marker –s as a dominant one, while the least are suffixes
that indicating comparative marker –er (2)

CONCLUSION
From the results of data analysis, the researcher found inflectional affixes in the Elon
Musk’s speech. In particular, there were eighty-five (85) inflectional affixes. There were eight
(7) different types suffixes, such as; -s/es indicating “plural” (28), -ed indicating “past tense” (5), -
ed/en indicating “past participle” (7), -
ing indicating “progressive” (23), -’s indicating “possessive” (4), and –est indicating
superlative (1).
As a result, suffixes –s/es plural become the mostt dominant suffixed which are being
used inEmma Waston’s speech. In addition, the other researchers are urged to design more
studies using alternative data sources because the analysis of this work is still in its early
stages.
Since the analysis of this paper is still limited on the inflectional morphemes in Elon
Musk’s speech, the other researcher are suggesed to do additional research on Derivational
Morphemes using song’s lyric or novel as a different data resources.
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