An Analysis of Derivational Affixes Found In Selected BBC News

The focus of this study is to identify the different kinds of derivational affixes used in the BBC News "War in Ukraine." This study implied two methodologies: a quantitative method was utilized to display the frequency percentages of different types and functions of derivational affixes found in the data source, and a descriptive qualitative method was used to give a thorough explanation for each piece of data found in the study. The research was conducted using many BBC News stories about the "War in Ukraine," which contained a variety of derivational affix phenomena. A noun derived from a verb (64.35%), an adjective derived from a verb (3.70%), a verb derived from a noun (0.93%), an adjective derived from a noun (7.87%), a noun derived from an adjective (3.70%), and an adverb derived from an adjective (14.81%) were found in this study based on the analysis. The following functions of class-maintaining affixes were observed: a noun derived from a noun (2.78%), an adjective derived from an adjective (0.93%), and a verb derived from a verb (0.93%). These affixes were employed to preserve a morpheme within the same class. The majority of the research's data highlighted how simple it was to generate nouns through derivational affixes, which made this type of data quite common.