A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AFFIXATION IN THE SHORT STORY "THE MAGIC BARREL" BY BERNARD MALAMUD

The study focuses on the morphological process of affixation. This study used the
short story The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud as source of data. This study aims to
find out the answer of research problems (1) what types of affixation, (2) the part of
speech change in the short story.
The writer used qualitative method. The data were collected by reading and
analyzing the short story The Magic Barrel as source of data. In analyzing the data, the
writer used interactive model analysis. The writer analyzed the data in several steps; they
are classifying the data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusion.
The result of the study shows types of derivational affixes (123 data) and
inflectional affixes (37 data). The dominant types of affixation is derivational affixes, and
the suffix is ‘-ly’. Based on the result, there are 160 data changing of part of speech of the
word influenced by 17 kinds of affix, such as affix ‘-ance’ changes part of speech Verb –
Noun, affix ‘-er’ changes Adjective – Adverb, affix ‘-ion’ changes Verb-Noun, affix ‘-ment’ changes Verb-Noun, affix ‘-ly’ changes Adjective-Adverb, affix ‘ing’ changes
Verb-Adjective, affix ‘ful’ changes Adjective-Adverb, affix ‘-ness’ changes AdjectiveNoun, affix ‘-able’ changes Verb-Adjective, affix ‘-al’ changes Noun-Adjective, affix ‘-ing’ changes Noun-Verb, affix ‘ –less’ changes Noun-Adjective, affix ‘-y’ changes
Adjective-Adverb, affix ‘–ing’ changes Noun- Adjective, affix ‘-ly’ changes PrepositionAdverb, affix ‘-ive’ changes Noun- Adjective, and affix ‘-ity’ changes Adjective- Noun.