An Analysis of Inflectional Affixes in The Articles of English Tempo Magazines

This thesis is entitled “An Analysis of Inflectional Affixes in The Articles of English Tempo Magazines”. It aims to identify the type and the morphological process of creating new words of inflectional affixes that are found in three articles of English Tempo Magazines. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the types of inflectional affixes by using theory from Lieber (2009) and described the morphological process using theory from Fromkin et al. (2011). From the total data, there were found eight types of inflectional affixes. They are 13 words of third person singular person which is 6,3% from the total data, 69 words are past tense which is 33,6% from the total data, 44 words are progressive which is 21,5% from the total data, one word are past participle which is 0,50% from the total data, 75 words are plural which is 36,6% from the total data, one word are possessive which is 0,50% from the total data, one word are comparative which is 0,50% from the total data, and 1 word are superlative which is 0,50% from the total data. As a result, the plural type of inflectional affixes which contains 75 data from 208 data from all three articles is the most frequently utilized. The types of inflectional affixes that are infrequently used in the three articles of English Tempo Magazines are the past participle, the comparative type and the superlative type with the amount of data each being one of 208 total data.