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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. The first part explains about the object or data which is used to support the analysis. The second part explains the
approach of the study which is used by the writer to analyze the data. The last part explains the process and the steps to collect and to analyze the data.
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is the English words that end with suffix –ion: verb into noun. The data are taken from Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. The
seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. The dictionary is chosen because it is commonly used by university
students who are studying English. Besides, it provides the definition and the phonetic transcription of the words. The phonetic transcription used to help the
writer when analyzing the data in morphophonemic processes in the attachment of suffix –ion to the stems.
B. Approach of the Study
The writer analyzed Nominalization and Morphophonemic Process in the English Words Attached by Suffix -ion
so she used two approaches to support the analysis of the data. Both are morphological approach and phonological approach.
Morphology is a linguistic field which studies about the structure of words and the processes of word formation O’Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller,
2005: 112. The theories in morphology are morpheme, root and stem, and
allomorph. In morphology, the term affixation is common in use when the suffixation is the main discussion of the study. In this study, morphological
approach is used to identify the verb forms which can be nominalized by suffix – ion
. Then, the verb forms can be analyzed by the types of nominalization process. Phonology is the part of linguistics which studies the sound pattern and the
systematic phonetic variation found in language O’Grady and Et al, 2005: 57. Phonological approach is suitable to be used to analyze the seven types of
morphophonemic processes and the phonological rules. In this study, morphological approach and phonological approach are the primary approaches
because the writer formulates the problem concerning the nominalization process and the distribution and the morphophonemic processes. In addition, the writer
will relate the morphophonemic processes with the notation rules. The notation rules are also applied in the analysis of every step of morphophonemic processes.
Morphophonemic processes are the combination of two processes, namely morphological and phonological processes.
C. Method of the Study
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