Suffix –y change to –ry if added to base form with ended of consonant t and l: 21 peasant
+ -ry
= peasantry
22 infant +
-ry =
infant data 332
ry 23 rival
+ -ry
= rival
data 100 ry
24 pen +
-y =
pen data 141
ny 25 fun
+ -y
= fun
data 154 ny
26 mud +
-y =
mud data 159
dy data 327
4.1.1.2.16 Suffix –ary
Suffix -ary changes the form when it is attached to the base form or word in which has consonant t and vowel e in the end of base form or word:
1 penitent +
-ary =
penitentiary 2 imagine
+ -ary
= imagin
data 26 ary
3 secret +
-ary =
secretary data 420 data 196
4.1.1.2.17 Suffix –ic
1 rhythm +
-ic =
rhythmic data 482
4.1.2 Reduplication
Reduplication is a special kind of morphological process forming new words either by copying an entire free morpheme full reduplication or part of it partial
reduplication. After reading the selected chapters, the writer did not find any
reduplication in this novel. Therefore, there is no reduplication occurred in this
novel.
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4.1.3 Modification
Modification is one of the morphological processes in forming word as an alternative form. There are two kinds of modification, zero modification and internal
modification. After reading carefully the selected chapters from the source of data, the writer finds out the internal modification used in the novel. Internal modification
is changing of a certain base form of morpheme in order to form a new word and different meaning.
The writer found there is changing of noun from singular to plural, they are:
Table 4.2 - Findings of Modification No.
Singular Plural
No. of Data
1 child
children data 330
2 tooth
teeth data 353
3 man
men data113
4 foot
feet data 192
5 woman
women data 187
4.1.4 Suppletion
Suppletion is one of morphological process which discusses irregularity words. It is not obvious the connection between the base form and the newly created
form past form of a word or morpheme. As usual, the form of past verb is formed by adding –ed cried, studied, jumped, etc.. However, in this case there is no such
pattern like usual, that’s why it is called “irregularity”. The writer found some words that are irregular in the source data, such as:
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Table 4.3 - Findings of Suppletion No.
Base Form Past Form
Past Participle Form
1 ring
rang data 2 2
say said data 6
3 find
found data 9 4
write wrote data 10
5 come
came data 12 6
pay paid data 17
7 know
knew data 21 known data 35
8 go
went data 25 gone data 47
9 drink
drank data 190 drunk data 27
10 run
ran data 29 11
mean meant data 32
12 become
became data 34 13
forget forgotten data 40
14 shoot
shot data 43 15
give gave data 46
given data 439 16
make made data 50
17 think
thought data 51 18
see saw data 61
seen data 63 19
begin began data 72
20 break
broke data 74 broken data 115
21 bring
brought data 84 22
fall fell data 87
fallen data 337 23
wear worn data 94
24 take
took data 149 taken data 111
25 grow
grew data 123 grown data 455
26 speed
sped data 124 27
hear heard data 126
25 ride
rode data 129 26
build built data 135
27 draw
drew data 247 drawn data 136
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28 drive
drove data 167 driven data 138
29 meet
met data 143 30
tell told data 173
31 hold
held data 178 32
sit sat data 189
33 get
got data 191 34
shake shook data 198
35 catch
caught data 203 36
blow blew data 211
37 leave
left data 232 38
rise rose data 238
39 buy
bought data 239 40
send sent data 245
41 deal
dealt data 248 42
throw thrown data 259
43 may
might data 267 43
swim swam data 287
44 sell
sold data 331 45
shine shone data 33
46 stand
stood data 361 47
tear torn data 389
48 lead
led data 408 49
speak spoke data 469
50 will
would data 490 51
can could data 507
The past form and participle form in the table went, gone, broke, broken, etc. have nothing to do with the base forms go, break, swim, etc..
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4.1.5 Compounding
