AFIKSASI DERIVASIONAL PEMBENTUKAN KATA SIFAT DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS

This thesis entitled �Adjective Derivational Affixation in English�, deals with the form, types of English adjective derivational affixes and the formation process, the meaning of derivational affixes, and the base that can be attached by adjective derivational affixes. This study is a descriptive qualitative one by which the data are collected through the data collecting technique. The data that used are in the form of written language which is taken from the �Oxford Pocket School Dictionary� written by Andrew Delahaunty and English text related to the research topic. The adjective derivations identified through the analysis are further analyzed into smaller units by using ultimate constituent analysis technique in order to get a clear identification about the form of affixes, description of the affixation process, the meaning of affixes and the base that can be attached. The results of this study show the following results: 1) the derivational affixes that used to form adjective are prefixes and suffixes, the derivational prefixes are a- in-, un-, and the derivational suffixes are �able, -al, -an, -ant, -ary, -ate, -ed,-en, -ful, -ic, -ing, -ish, -ive, -less, -like, -ly, -ous, -y with some variation forms of the affixes. The rule of change in the adjectival process are the change of phonemes, the appearance of phonemes and the double of phonemes, 2) the grammatical meanings of the derivational affixes are tend to form the concept meaning of �negation�, �ability�, �manner�, �quality�, �characteristic�, and �relation�, 3) the base that can be attached by derivational affixes in forming the adjective are not only attach to one type of word class, the base that could be attached by the derivational affixes are also another derived word