AN ANALYSIS OF BOUND MORPHEMES IN THE GOO GOO DOLLS' SONG LYRICS ENTITLED ‘IRIS’

Abstract

This purpose of this study is to analyze the bound morphemes in the lyrics of the song “Iris”. It is a descriptive qualitative study where data analysis is presented in tabular form . Based on the result of the study , it can be concluded that the song lyrics contain 13 bound morphemes which three of them are derivational morphemes that function as class changing affixes. They each change a noun to a verb,  adjective to a noun, and a verb to an adjective. The other ten data are inflectional morphemes which function as superlative, comparative, past-tense, past participle, plural, progressive and third-person singular. From the calculation results, it is seen that the number of derivational morphemes is 23 percent while inflectional morphemes reach 77 percent. So it can be concluded that the inflectional morphemes are the most dominant.