REVIEW ARTIKEL

Morphological Analysis of Derivational Affixes in Brothers Grimm’s the Story of

Rapunzel

Efrika Siboro, Barli Bram

ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education

by
Mudhiah Umamah (489400)

Program Studi Magister Linguistik

Fakultas Ilmu Budaya
Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta
2022
Title Morphological Analysis of Derivational Affixes in Brothers Grimm’s the Story
of Rapunzel
Author Efrika Siboro, Barli Bram
Volume and Vol. 4, No. 1, 2020
Pages
Year   2020
Reviewer  Mudhiah Umamah
Date 30 Agustus 2022
Background of The Study

- This study is conducted based on the consideration of the significance of enriching the
vocabularies especially for the English learners.
- Talking about enriching the vocabularies, the researchers argue that one of the strategies to
enrich the vocabularies for the English learners is reading some short stories
- Learning vocabularies, it is related with the study of language, Morphology.
- Morphology is the study of about the words’ structure and the process how the words are
formed (Meinawati & Alawiyah, 2018; Jantika, Suganda, Wahya, and Sobarna, 2014; Oz,
2014; Lieber, 2009; Mccarthy, 2002; Aronoff & Fudeman, 2011; Kusmawardhani, 2018;
Rugaiyah, 2018). Morphology discusses about morpheme, the smallest unit of word
formation in language.
- There are two kinds of morphemes that form the word, free morpheme and bound
morpheme.
- In bound morpheme, there are prefix and suffix. Both are called as affixes.
- The affixation process will discuss prefix and suffix added to free morphemes.
- There are two kinds of affixes, derivational and inflectional.
- This study is focused on the derivational affixes found in the text of Rapunzel written by
The Brothers Grimm.
- This study formulates two research questions, how many derivational affixes are used in
the story of Rapunzel? Second, what are the functions of the derivational affixes in the
story of Rapunzel?
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The Purpose of This study aims to explore derivational affixes, more specifically the types of
the research derivational affixes and the functions of the derivational affixes in the story of
Rapunzel, which was written by the Brothers Grimm.
Previous There are two previous studies related to this study
studies  
- Nurjanah, Ramdhaniah, and Efransyah (2018) conducted a study to
investigate the types of derivational and inflectional affixes in the text
The Ugly Duckling and to describe the affixations that were attached in
the derivational and inflectional processes of the text The Ugly
Duckling. The most dominant affixation is inflectional affixes.
- Sanita (2014) examines the type of affixes found in the declaration
independence. The study showed that there were eight prefixes and 18
suffixes in the declaration independence. The prefixes that often
appeared were un-, dis-, and inwhile suffixes that often occurred were -
ion, -tion, ation, -ence, -ance, - ment and -er/-or.

Research
Methodology This research is quantitative research. The source of data are two sources,
primary from the short story text written by Brother’s Grimm and some
references to support the analysis and some books on morphology in general and
on derivational affixes in particular. The data collection technique was
observation and documentation. The researchers took four steps to analyze the
collected data. The findings were then described and classified based on their
 categories. The collected data and analysis results were verified by the
researchers by rechecking the data and results to ensure accuracy and validity.

Result and Discussion

Result : There are 33 derivational word formation found in the story of Rapunzel that contains
prefixes and suffixes to form the word that can also change their word class. Regarding with the
function of affixes, adjective formation is the most dominantly function of derivation found in the
story. The verb formation function is the function with the least position.

Discussion : The adjective formation appeared the most frequent because the story of Rapunzel
carries many descriptions of nouns, and accordingly, adjectives are used to modify the 82. The verb
formation is the least frequent because the verbs in the story of Rapunzel are mostly in the form of
past tense, and therefore, these past tense verbs are not classified as derivation, but inflection,
which is beyond the focus of this paper.

Conclusion Based on the study results, in the short story of Rapunzel, there existed
33 occurrences of words which contain prefixes and suffixes. The
researchers found that most derivational affixes change the category of
word or part of speech and the meaning. There existed four functions of
derivational affixes in the short story of Rapunzel, namely noun
formation, adjective formation, verb formation and adverb maker.

Strength -

Weakness  Abstract

- The Abstract doesn’t explain the issue that brings to be important to

examine
- The Abstract doesn’t include the methods of collecting data and data
analysis.
- The Abstract stops with the result shown. It has to continue with the
value of finding.

 Background

- The study doesn’t show and explain the novelty that differ this current
study and the previous studies.

 Theoretical Framework

- This study has the lack of previous studies. The lack of previous studies
effect the sense of significancy of why this research is important to do.

 Research Methodology

- The reviewer argue that the study is qualitative rather than quantitative,
because the researchers describe the data findings as they are, but the
researchers state that the study is quantitative.
- The researchers write that they use four steps to analysis the collected
data
- The reviewer assume the weakness of the data, because the data collects
from one story,
 Result

The researchers don’t need to present the table. It is enough to mention

the number of each category, because in the case of writing article it
will be neater and readable.

 Discussion

There is no proper discussion in the paper. It is just shown the result of

affixation including prefixes and suffixes.

 Conclusion

- Conclusion is repeating the result explanation above.

- Conclusion doesn’t include the suggestion for the next researcher
- Conclusion doesn’t include the weakness of the study, so the
recommendation for the next researcher