The Analysis of Inflectional Morpheme in English Song Lyric in the Chainsmokers’s “So Far So Good” Album

Abstract

Morpheme is the smallest meaningful lexical item in a language, that is a part of morphology which  is  very  important  to  learn.  One  of  parts  that  consist  of  morpheme  is  inflectional morpheme, that is a suffix which added to a word but doesn’t change the meaning and still in the same word class. This is what the writer will discuss. In this study, the writer will analyze the inflectional morphemes and the categories in English song lyric in the Chainsmokers’s “So Far So Good” album. The writer used qualitative research for analyzing, and it founds that there were 215 morphemes used which divided into fifty-nine inflectional categories of noun (plural), one hundred and forty-six inflectional categories of verb (twenty-nine of 3rd  person singular, fifty-four of past tense, fifty-nine of progressive, and four of past  participle form), and ten inflectional categories of adjective (five of comparative, and 5 of superlative form).