Definition of Terms INTRODUCTION

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E. Research Benefits

The researcher expects that this study can be beneficial for: 1. Readers of this research The research will provide information about how affixation happens, especially in verbs, and some morphological processes which possibly occur within the affixation. 2. Students of English Department This research will contribute to morphology study, especially related to affixation, which will enri ch the students’ knowledge of certain morphological phenomena occurring within the use of affixation. It can also help them build more words by combining affixation and some morphological processes. Besides, this research are also meant to inspire the students to be critical to morphological phenomena found. 3. Future researchers This research can be used as a reference to conduct similar researches related to affixation and morphological processes in words.

F. Definition of Terms

The topic of this research deals with some terms such as verb affixations, morphological processes and newspaper editorial. To avoid misconception about the terms used in this study, the researcher provides a brief explanation about them. 5 1. Verb affixation According to Carstairs-McCarthy 2006, affixation is the process whereby an affix is attached to a base, which may be simple as in full, the base to which – ness is attached to form fullness, or complex like meditate, the base to which pre - is attached to form premeditate. From the examples above, it can be concluded that the affixation occurring in a word can happen once or more, and they are still called affixation. It brings an understanding to the researcher that affixation is the process whereby an affix or affixes is or are attached to a base. 2. Morphological processes It is possible to find other morphological processes besides the affixation in the affixed verbs. O’Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller 2010 clasify the processes that may happen during the process of forming words, in this case the verbs: cliticization, conversion, clipping, blends, backformation, acronyms, onomatopoeia, coinage, eponyms, and borrowing. Those happening processes will make the readers difficult to determine the bases. However, some of the process are not very productive and rarely found within the affixation occurring. Therefore, the researcher omitted cliticization and onomatopoeia. On the other side, the researcher added a morphological process included in morphophonology since it occurs quite often within the affixation. 3. Newspaper editorial Spencer 1924 defines editorial as “an expression of fact and opinion in concise, logical, pleasing order for the sake of entertaining, of influencing opinion, or of interpreting significant news in such a way that its importance to 6 the average reader will be clear.” The definition above indicates that every editorial in a newspaper may have different point of view from other newspapers. An editorial contains subjectivity factor so that the researcher would eliminate the subjective elements, which are not related to morphological factor. Therefore, the researcher analyse words instead of sentences in the editorials. 7

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE