SOARES, Amelia (2020) Derivational Affixes In Tetun Dili Dialect. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandira Kupang.

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Abstract

The study was conducted to answer the following question. What are the forms and functions of affixes in Tetun Dili dialect of Tetun Language? The objective of the study is to find out forms and functions of affixes in Tetun Dili dialect of Tetun Language. Morphological analysis is the main areas in studying vocabulary. Morphological analysis itself is analysis that is breaking a word into its elements (root, prefix, suffix and circumfix). Meanwhile, derivational affixes is the part of morphological analysis. So, it is important for the students to study about derivational affixes. When the students are able to identify derivational affix, they can develop their vocabulary because from just one word it can gain many words with different part of speech. This research aimed to find out the derivational affixes in Tetun Dili dialect. This research is descriptive qualitative research where researcher tries to find out the derivational affix and the roots from the words in Tetun Dili dialect without using statistical calculation. In this research the writer uses all of words that are attached prefix and suffix as the data. The result of shows the derivational affixes in Tetun Dili dialect are ha- (8), nak- (4) as prefixes, while the suffixes are –n (4), -dor (4), -ten (4) and circumfix are hak-... -k (1), ha-... -n (1), na-... -n (2). Conclusion of this research, the writer suggests that to improve their mastery of vocabulary, the readers should be apply the derivational affixes by breaking the word into its elements root and affixes because from one word they can get the structure of words and they also find how the words built. By knowing the roots, the readers can build the word by themselves.

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