ANALYSIS OF THE AFFIXATION PROCESS IN ADELE’S SONG LYRICS

Abstract

One morphological process in word development or word formation is called affixation or affixing. Affixation is the process of adding a morpheme or affix to a word to create either a different form of that word or a new word with a different meaning. The purpose of this study was to determine the affixation of each word contained in Adele's song lyrics, which contains prefixes and suffixes within the process of affixation or affixing. This qualitative research involves data presentation, data identification, data categorization, and the main phenomena selection through the interpretation techniques, the results of which are then used for a synthesis in the result and discussion. There are three songs that the researchers analyzed: “send my love”, “easy on me”, and “all I ask”. Of the three songs as the data source, the researchers found 100 words using affixation. Two affixation processes were found, namely prefixing and suffixing, with their respective prefixes and suffixes from the song lyrics. A few words contained prefixes, while most others contained suffixes. This morphological behavior of affixation as the finding of the morphological analysis within the particular song lyrics can be learned as a finding that may be different from other findings based on other song lyrics analysis. This analysis can also be used as a model of morphological analysis, particularly of affixation or affixing process with the particular context of the data source. The prefixes, as well as the suffixes, found out within the affixation process with similar analysis but different data sources, may be differently identified