A STUDY ON DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES OF INDONESIAN NOUN-FORMATION IN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL : A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE

This study aimed at investigating the types of derivational affixes of Indonesian noun-formation in newspaper editorial of kompas. Kompas newspaper is wide circulation or it has a tremendous reading circulation in
Indonesia. This study used a descriptive qualitative method by using the theory of structural linguistics to
interprete the grammatical meaning carried out in the process of derivational affixes of Indonesian noun-formation. The method of analysis data applied distributional method in terms of classifyng lexical
category of Indonesian derived nouns producing affixation. The theory referring to the patterns of derivation and structure, which was developed by Aronoff & Fudeman (2005). The object of the study is a derivational affixes of Indonesian noun-formation that exist in newspaper editorial of Indonesian kompas. Based on the analysis of the data the findings showing that there are 7 types of derivational affixes of Indonesian noun-formation exists in the newspaper editorial (tajuk rencana) of kompas namely (1) suffix -an, (2) infix -em- + suffix -an, (3) infix -el-, (4) confix per-an, (5) confix ke-an, (6) confix pe-an and (7) confix pen-an. These types are considered important viewed from the morphology study in the field of linguistics. This is to say that the phenomena referring to the point of the function of the language is considered.