Derivational affixes on song lyrics in Justin Bieber’s Purpose album

This study is about the analysis of derivational affixes as found on song lyrics in Justin Bieber’s Purpose Album. This study aims to describe the process of derivational affixes and to find out the functions of each derivational affixes on song lyrics in Justin Bieber’s Purpose Album. The descriptive qualitative method is used in this study to investigate derivational affixes on song lyrics of Justin Bieber’s Purpose Album. The data of this study are in the form of words which contain English affixes. The researcher acts as the key instrument- human instrument. The technique for collecting the data are by download the song of Justin Bieber’s Purpose Album on the internet, reading the entire data source cautiously, and collecting the data which contain derivational affixes. Then it is followed by identifying, classifying, and analyzing the data as the procedures of data analysis. At last, drawing the conclusion is also required. The result of this study shows that derivational affixes are found in Justin Bieber’s purpose album. There are two types of affix is used. They are suffix and prefix. There is no infix is used. Types of suffix which are found -ty, -ness, -ion, -ful, -er, -y, -ve, -ive, -al, -ent, -ary, -ence, and -ly. Meanwhile, prefixes which are found, they are re-, in-, pro-, com-, un-, im-, and dis-. The functions of derivational affixes consist of noun forming, adverb forming, adjective forming, and verb forming. The mostly used of affixes is suffix, it is the suffix –ion to form a noun and –ly to form an adverb