Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Language is the main vehicle in literature. The phenomenon of using language in literature has its own appeal to be investigated. One of the phenomena of using language in literary works is the use of morphemes. Morpheme is the smallest language unit that has a meaning or meaning as well as a reference for the formation of other language units. This study aims to describe the bound morpheme in a novel entitled 5 cm by Donny Dhirgantoro. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The purpose of this study was to determine the use of morphemes bound in literary texts in the form of a novel titled 5 cm by Donny Dhirgantoro. Unit of analysis in the form of bound morphemes used in the data source (novel 5 cm by Donny Dhirgantoro). Researchers are key instruments, data collection is done by reading the novel entitled 5 cm by Donny Dhigantoro, identifying bound morphemes, grouping bound morphemes, analyzing bound morphemes and drawing conclusions. The results showed that the use of bound morphemes contained in Donny Dhirgantoro's novel were bound morphemes in the form of affixes totaling 474 words, bound morphemes in the form of clitics or proclites totaling 531 words while bound morphemes were eleven words.
Institutions: Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, Hasanuddin University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3083387445