An Analysis of Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes in Deen Squad Lyrics

The primary thing to be learned in mastery a language is word. Word is dealing with morphology, because morphology influences spelling, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. In the way of understanding the meaning of vocabulary, language users need to learned morphology, especially derivational and inflectional morphemes. This research was designed to identify the derivational and inflectional morphemes that occur in Deen Squad lyrics. The objective of research is also aimed to describe the dominant type of derivational and inflectional in the songs. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The data of this study is an album of Deen Squad lyrics which consist of five songs. The result of this study showed that there were 93 inflectional morphemes which were classified into 8 types and 17 derivational morphemes which were classified into 4 types. The most frequently occurred morpheme in the lyrics was inflectional progressive type, which occurred 37 times. After considering the data analysis, the process of derivational and inflectional affixes in lyrics of Deen Squad preferred to inflectional affixes than derivational affixes. Additionally, there were only four types of derivational affixes occurred in 17 processes.