THE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH INFLECTION AND DERIVATION MORPHEME FOUND IN THE SHORT STORY ENTITLED THE PAPER MENAGERIE BY KEN LIU AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEACHING VOCABULARY

Abstract

This research aims are to identify the uses of inflection and derivation morpheme found in The Short story entitled The Paper Menagerie and to describe their application in teaching vocabulary. It belongs to qualitative research. The researcher used a collection of short stories by Ken Liu entitled The Paper menagerie as the data source. The researcher then identified the words containing inflection and derivation affixes, classified the inflection and derivation morphemes found in the short story based on its use, counted the percentage of the gerunds, discussed the finding of the analysis, it is discovered 26% inflections of noun, 72% inflections of verb, and 2% inflection of adjective and the derivational process in short story The Paper Menagerie, it is discovered 31% derivation of noun, 14% derivation of verb, 13% derivation of adjective, and 42% derivation of adverb in this short story and they can be applied in teaching vocabulary for the twelfth-grade second semester students of Language Program of senior high school.