Inflectional Morphemes in Maudy Ayunda’s Book “Dear Tomorrow”

Abstract

Abstract—The article aims to find out the types of inflectional morphemes used by the writer in the book, as
well as to identify the functions of inflectional morphemes found in the book. The data source was from the
self-improvement book entitled “Dear Tomorrow” by Maudy Ayunda. The data was analyzed using the theory
of O’Grady and Archibald (2016). Moreover, the data was collected through observation and documentation
methods. Descriptive qualitative method in the form of content analysis was used to analyze the data. The
analysis was conducted in several stages. First, the O’Grady and Archibald (2016) hypothesis was utilized to
identify the types of inflectional morphemes used in the book. Furthermore, the theory of the functions of
inflectional morphemes developed by O’Grady and Archibald (2016) was used to analyze the functions of
inflectional morphemes. The results of the analysis showed that there were seven out of eight types of
inflectional morphemes found in the book. In terms of the functions of inflectional morphemes, it was
discovered that seven functions were detected in the data source.
Keywords: inflectional morphemes, types of inflectional morphemes, functions of inflectional morphemes