MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FREE AND BOUND MORPHEMES IN THE NOVEL HEALING IS THE NEW HIGH BY VEX KING

Abstract

This paper has explored the linguistic behaviors of free morphemes and bound morphemes through morphological analysis. Morphology is a linguistic study of words, and morpheme is also included inside it. A morpheme is the minimal or the smallest unit of words, and a morpheme is made up of two types, i.e., free morpheme, and bound morpheme. The free morpheme is a morpheme that can stand without other words and it means they can stand alone, in the other words, free morphemes can function independently as words. And bound morpheme is the opposite, a morpheme that cannot stand alone because they need other words, and bound morpheme always function in conjunction with free morpheme or sometimes with other bound morphemes. Bound morphemes can be classified as infection and derivation. For the simple example, the free morpheme from the word “reminded” is “mind”, and the bound morphemes are “re-“ and “-ed”. The researchers used a list of references to do this research. The research method that was used was descriptive qualitative. To gain the data the researchers used a literature review and a novel by Vex King named ‘Healing Is the New High’ and the researchers obtained 50 data about free morphemes and bound morphemes in total. The focus of the researchers was to conduct a free morpheme and bound morpheme analysis in the novel ‘Healing is the New High by Vex King’. The results of this research were, among others, that the researchers were trying to show that a morphological analysis on free and bound morphemes is not difficult to learn, as the linguistic behaviors of free and bound morphemes can be easily identified, especially in the relation between free morphemes and bound morphemes with the process of word construction, and that morphology, free morphemes, and bound morphemes have particular linguistic behaviors for students to learn.