Open AccessDepicting Contemporary Affixes To Generate Students’ Linguistic And Communicative Competence
Author(s) -
R. Kunjana Rahardi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of management and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2394-0913
DOI - 10.35940/ijmh.c0410.114319
Subject(s) - indonesian , prefix , linguistics , complement (music) , context (archaeology) , suffix , computer science , psychology , history , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype , archaeology
This brief article focuses on the various affixes and their categories in the contemporary Indonesian language. The data were collected by applying the technique of taking notes and the technique of recording. The collected data were then classified, deciphered and analyzed by applying the distributional method. The results show that there are eight prefixes in the Indonesian language, namely 'ber-, meN-, di-, ke-, per-, peng-, se-, ter-'; two types of suffixes, which are the regular suffixes of '-an, -anda, -i, -kan, -wan/wati, -in, -at', and foreign suffixes of '-isasi, -asi, -or, -ee, -e, -isme, -logi, -tas'; four infixes, which are '-el-, -em-, -er-, and -in-'; confixes of ‘ke-an’, ‘ber-an’, ‘per-an’, ‘peng-an’, and ‘se-nya’; as well as two simulfixes of 'member-kan' and 'memper-kan'. The results of this study are certainly useful in the following matters: (1) to complement the traditional description of Indonesian language morphology, (2) to develop Indonesian linguistic studies. This study has limitations because it has not been able to describe the types of affixes contextually. The subsequent study is suggested to base the data taken from such authentic texts so that the results of the study can better describe the use of affixes in a more tangible context.