A contrastive analysis of affixes in english and mandailingnese

This research discussed about the comparison of the process of morphological affixes in English and Mandailingnese. This study aimed to investigate the process of affix in English and Mandailingnese, and get the similarities and differences process affixes both in English and Mandailingnese. The researcher used library research and the research used descriptive analysis method. The data were taken from the books by reading and quoting that discussed about morphological affixes. The similarities of affixes in English and Mandailingnese in process of prefixes and suffixes. In prefix, there are prefix + verb = verb, and prefix + adjective = verb, in suffixes there are two kinds, in inflectional suffixes are verb + suffix = verb, and noun + suffix = verb. And the similarities in process of derivational suffix are noun + suffix = verb, and adjective + suffix = verb. The difference of affixes in English and Mandailingnese is confixes. In English there is no confixes but in Mandailingnese have confixes there are; Mang- + verb + -kon= verb, and Ma- + verb + -kon = verb