73 attached with affix -an. The addition in fact also changed the meanings of the base
words into “the mill” and “the grinder.”
c. Inflectional Morphology in Cockney and Bahasa Binan
O’Grady, et al. 2010 state that inflectional morphology is the type of affixation that deals with the grammar of a language. This means that the addition
of the affixes is done for the sake of showing the grammar contrast in a language. Based on the word analysis, the writer found some words designated as words
with inflectional affixes in Cockney and Bahasa Binan. Table 4.4 depicts the case of inflection found in Cockney.
Table 4.4: Inflection in Cockney
Word Part of
Speech Meaning
Morphology Type of
Inflection
airs and
graces noun
faces the addition of
-s to the word “air”
and “grace.”
suffix
alderman’s eyes
noun flies
the addition of -‘s to the word
“Alderman” and -s to the
word “eye.” suffix
It was seen that the addition of -s to the words “air” and “grace” did not change any category of the words. The writer also found that the change of the
meaning after the addition was also not severe as it only affected plurality of the words “air” and “grace.” The same case also happened to the word “Alderman’s
eyes.” Regardless the attachment of the affix –s, elicited the plurality to the noun “eye,” the addition of the affix -‘s that was depicted in the word “Alderman’s”
74 conveyed the sense of possessiveness of the affix-attached word without changing
the word category and the meaning of the word. This meant that the affix -‘s was basically used to convey the possessiveness of the word “eye” to the word
“Alderman.” In other words, the attachment of -‘s was done to imply that “Alderman” was the owner of the “eyes.”
The same process of inflectional morphology also happened in Bahasa Binan. Since Bahasa Binan was rooted from Bahasa Indonesia, the nature of both
languages also appeared the same. Table 4.5 depicts the occurrence of inflectional morphology in Bahasa Binan.
Table 4.5: Inflection in Bahasa Binan
Word Part of
Speech
Meaning Morphology
Type of Inflection
berbelong verb
to have fur the addition of ber- to
the word belong. prefix
dideres verb
being anally penetrated
the addition of di- to the word deres.
prefix
The word berbelong actually came from a Bahasa Binan word belong, which meant “hairfur.” The noun belong in fact turned into a verb when it was
attached with the affix ber-, which indicated the possessiveness of the noun. Therefore, the word berbelong actually conveyed “to have fur or hair.” In short, it
could be said that the addition of prefix ber- to the verb belong changed the word category and the meaning of the base word belong. This concept was in par with
the statement of Parera 2007 who says that some of the indications of
75 inflectional morphology are the existence of affixes denoting the passivity and the
progressivity of the base words. The same case also happened to the word dideres. The word dideres was
derived from a Bahasa Binan word deres, which meant “to penetrate anally.” The word then underwent the process of affixation di- in the initial position of the
word deres to indicate the passivity of the base word. Thus, the verb dideres conveyed the passivity of the word deres to mean “being anally penetrated.”
Based on the explanation above, it could be concluded that inflectional morphology in Bahasa Binan commonly appeared as the words with affix ber-,
which conveyed possessiveness of the word and the affix di-, which conveyed passivity of the word.
2. Word Modification in Cockney and Bahasa Binan
