AN ANALYSIS OF DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES IN THE CNN NEWS

This research aimed to investigate the process of derivational and inflectional
morphemes in articles of The CNN News. This research used descriptive
qualitative method. The objects of this research were three news articles of
the CNN News. The data were collected from document of articles in the
CNN News. The researcher analyzed the data by applying the theory of
Fromkin et al (2014). From the 83 data on derivational and 209 data on
inflectional morphemes, the result showed that there were 9 derivational
processes and 8 inflectional processes. The types of derivational process in
articles were Noun to Adjective, Verb to Noun, Adjective to Adverb, Noun
to Verb, Adjective to Noun, Verb to Adjective, Noun to Noun, Verb to Verb,
and Adjective to Adjective. Meanwhile, the types of inflectional processes
were Simple Present Tense, Past Tense, Progressive, Past Participle, Plural,
Possesive, Comparative and Superlative. In conclusion, the process of
Adjective to Verb was the only derivational process which was not found
based on 10 derivational processes proposed by Fromkin et al (2014). While
all types of inflectional processes were found in the articles.
Keywords: Morpheme, Derivational Morpheme, Inflectional Morpheme,
The CNN News