An Analysis of Inflectional Affixes in the Rainbow Troops Novel by Andrea Hirata Translated by Angie Kilbane

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the types and function of inflectional affixes in The Rainbow Troops Novel by Andrea Hirata Translated by Angie Kilbane. The research is also as a reference for reader to enrich their knowledge about inflectional affixes. The data of research contain kinds of type and functions of inflectional affixes in The rainbow Troops Novel. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The data are analyzed based on Yule and Fromkin et.al categories of inflectional affixes. The researcher collects, identifies, classifies and presents data into tables accordance to the function. The result of the research shows that there are four types of inflectional verbs and two types of inflectional adjectives are used in the novel. The most dominant type of inflectional affixes used in the novel is inflectional verbs of past tense in regular form with total 640(44.5%), which are followed inflectional verbs of past participle in regular form with total 313 (21.78%). Then, inflectional verbs of present participle are 235(16.34%), which are followed inflectional verbs in irregular form for past tense with total 90(6.25%) and irregular form of past participle with total 80(5.56%). The inflectional adjectives are 20(1.39%) for comparative adjective and 30(2.09%) for superlative adjective. The result above shows that inflectional affixes are important to be studied to enrich vocabulary in mastering English for the reader.