Derivational Suffixes Function Analysis in BBC News: War in Gaza
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v5i1.9811Abstract
The aims of this research is focusing to identify of the function of the derivational suffixes
found in the BBC News: “War in Gaza”. Descriptive qualitative methods were used to identify
the explanation about the function of derivational suffixes that found. The theories from
Katamba (1994) and McCarthy (2002) were used to analyze the data. The news from BBC
News: “War in Gaza” were used. Based on the analysis, this study found 202 data of suffixes
that categorized as class changing and class maintaining. The suffixes that changing the word
class found in this study were found 120 (62%) data of noun derived from verb, 11 (6%) data
of adjective derived from verb, 20 (10%) data of adjective derived from noun, 9 (5%) data of
noun derived from adjective and 33 (17%) data of adverb derived from adjective. It was found
many nouns derived from verb suffix in the class changing because based on McCarthy, suffix -er is the most common way to form the noun. Meanwhile the suffix that maintaining the word
class, it was found 9 (4%) data. It was only from noun derived from noun because the suffixes
are commonly used in the news.
References
BBC News. “Hamas and other groups committed war crimes on 7 October, says HRW” July 17 2024. https://bbc.com/news/articles/c1vdz75g6dvo
BBC News. “How big an issue is Gaza for voters in Bradford?.” July 3 2024. https://bbc.com/news/articles/cgr57nzen1go
BBC News. ‘Inside Gaza aid depot: Food waits as Israel and UN trade blame.” February 22 2024. https://bbc.com/news/articles/cv22ymmp46ro
BBC News. “Israeli strikes on Gaza may have violated laws of war – UN report.” June 19 2024. https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy66e20j531o
BBC News. “Students occupy UK university campuses in protest over Gaza.” May 2 2024. https://bbc.com/news/uk-68938763
BBC News. “US military ends Gaza floating aid pier mission.” July 18 2024. https://bbc.com/news/articles/c728337zy1lo
Katamba, F. 1994. English Words. New York: Routledge
Katamba, F. 1993. Modern Linguistics Morphology. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Khoirunnisaa, Marita & Widyastuti, Widyastuti. 2022. Derivational Affixes with the Special Reference to Silb’s Comis Entitled Blood Bank. Humanitaties: Journal of Language and Literature, 1, 51-63.
Masitoh, Umi &Indriani, Lilia. 2021. An Analysis of Derivational Suffixes on “Percy Jackson the Sea Monsters. English Journal of Indragiri: Studies in Education, Literature and Linguistics, 2 ,252-272.
McCarthy, A. C. 2002. An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Narasuari, Ni Putu Dian & Rahayuni, Ni Ketut Sri. 2020. Derivational Suffixes in Crazy Rich Asian Novel: A Morphological Analysis. Humanis: Journal of Arts and Humanities, 4, 364-371.
Pramesti. 2024. “Derivational Suffixes Found in “The Dry” Novel by Jane Harper”. Thesis. Denpasar: Faculty of Foreign Languages, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University.
Rahayu. 2020. An Analysis of Derivational Affixes Found in the Webtoon Story entitled “True Beauty”. Thesis. Denpasar: Faculty of Foreign Languages, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University.
