Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES IN ELON MUSK SPEECH Ismail1. Wulandari2. Nurhikmah3 STKIP Yapis Dompu Email : 1ismailadelembo@gmail. com, 2wlndrilyas@gmail. 3nurhikmahnurhikmah764@gmail. (Naskah Masuk : 28 Desember 2023, diterima untuk diterbitkan : 31 Desember 2. Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui jenis morfem infleksional dan morfem yang paling dominan muncul dalam pidato Elon Musk. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif yang mengadopsi analisis data yang dirancang oleh Miles & Huberman . yang meliputi reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah. Khusus untuk afiks infleksional, afiks yang muncul sebanyak delapan puluh lima . Tidak ada awalan. Ada tujuh . jenis sufiks yang berbeda, seperti. -s/es menandakan jamak, -s/es menandakan orang ketiga tunggal, -ed menandakan past tense, -ed menandakan past participle, -'s menandakan posesif, -ing menandakan progresif, -est menandakan Akibatnya, sufiks Aes/es jamak menjadi sufiks paling dominan yang digunakan dalam pidato Elon Musk. Karena analisis tulisan ini masih terbatas pada morfem infleksional dalam pidato Elon Musk, maka peneliti lain disarankan untuk melakukan penelitian tambahan pada Morfem Turunan dengan menggunakan lirik lagu atau novel sebagai sumber data yang Kata Kunci: Analisis Morfologi. Morfem infleksional. Pidato Abstract: This research aims to investigate types of inflectional morphemes and the most dominant morphemes appearing in Elon Musk Speech. This study is a qualitative research that adopted the data analysis designed by Miles & Huberman . which covers data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The result of this study is that. In particular. For the inflecttional affixes, the affixes that occured were eighty-five . There were no prefixes. There were seven . different types of suffixes, such asa. -s/es indicating plural, -s/es indicating third person singular, -ed indicating past tense, -ed indicating past participle, -Aos indicating possessive, -ing indicating progressive, -est indicating superlative. As a result, suffixes Aes/es plural become the mostt dominant suffixed which are being used in Elon MuskAos speech. Since the analysis of this paper is still limited on the inflectional morphemes in Elon MuskAos speech, the other researcher are suggesed to do additional research on Derivational Morphemes using songAos lyric or novel as a different data resources. Keywords: Morphological analysis. Inflectional Morpheme. Speech INTRODUCTION English is an International language. According to (Mastin, 2. English is the only language that the majority of people in practically every part of the world speak and understandAy. It alludes to a language that both native and second-language speakers acquire and use on a global scale. There are around 1. 5 billion people who speak English and approximately 360 million use English as their first language. English plays an important role Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 in many sectors such as. Education. Medical. Politics. Business, etc. There's no denying the importance of language in human existence. Even the human life and language cannot be separated, (Ismail et al. , 2. Language plays very crucial role in human lives, (Ismail, et all. English as other language consist of four language skills such as. Listening. Speaking. Reading and Writing. It is impossible to build a house without a solid foundation. To master those four language skills, we have to know a ton of vocabulary. When conversing with others, having a strong vocabulary might help individuals communicate more effectively. They can also translate words when writing and speaking English. To help language learners increase their vocabulary mastery, vocabulary mastering still has to be given greater attention. It might be worthwhile to consider additional aspects that might be related to vocabulary mastery without ignoring the methods and strategies employed in vocabulary learning. One aspect could be seen from morphology as it is connected to words. According to Hasplemath . , morphology is the study of systematic covariation in the structure and meaning of words. By this meaning, it can be concluded that words have a system. Each system is interconnected with another, or each word is interconnected with another word, and morphology investigates these connections. Each wordAos structure is also studied in addition to its meaning. It is simple to comprehend the meaning and relationship between words by studying and comprehending the structure of words in morphology. Discussing about morphology, it cannot separated with morpheme. Due to the fact that morpheme is the study of systematic correlation in the form and meaning of words. Ramlan, . stated that AuMorpheme is the smallest element which cannot be divided into any other formsAy. Morpheme is divided into two categories in linguistics. Free Morpheme and Bound Morpheme. According to Richards . 5: . in Nuril . Bound morpheme is a linguistic form . which is never used alone but must be used with another morpheme, for example as an affix or combining form. Example: -al, -ful, -less, -ed, -able, -alAy. Bound morpheme cannot stand alone because it needs to be added to a free morpheme (Lieber,2009 as cited in I Kadek Arya Antar. Morphology consists of bound morpheme. Bound morpheme can be found in both spoken and written texts, including those found in books, novels, magazines, newspapers, television, radio, movies, speeches, etc. Speech is the most frequent type of text and is frequently entertaining to listen to. Speech is a spoken expression of ideas that is made by someone who is talking in front of a group of people. Speeches can be found in many different environments and with many different purposes. Many researchers have conducted a research about an analysis of morpheme in any Astuti, et al. conducted a research about free and bound morphemes in William ShakespeareAos poetries. The result showed that free morpheme was more dominant than Bound morpheme. Adea A. Novita S. Zahratun S . has conducted about an analysis of inflectional affixes in short story AuRumpelstilskinAy by the BrothersGrims. From the results of the study, it can be seen that Inflectional morphemes mostly occurred in verbs rather than in nouns or adjectives. Ismail. , et all, . This research aims to investigate types of inflectional morphemes and the most dominant morphemes appearing in Queen Victoria Speech. This study is a qualitative research that adopted the data analysis designed by Miles & Huberman . The result of this study is that. In particular, there were six . different types of inflectional morphemes. Futhermore. plural marker Aes becomes the most dominant inflectional morphem, however. comparative marker Aeer becomes the least inflectional morphemes used in Queen Victoria speech. Additionally. possessive marker -Aosand third person present singular marker Aes were not found in the speech. Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 Unpris Y. Widia W . has conducted about an analysis of affixes in song lyrics of Adele. The writer found the use of suffixes and prefixes which has their own functions in the The first lyric contains 2 Adjective, 2 Plural, 2 Noun, 1 Verb. The Second lyric contains 3 Adjective, 2 Plural, 1 Noun, 1 Verb, and 1 Preposition. While the third lyric contains 2 Adjective, 5 Plural, and 2 Noun. Furthermore. I kadek Arya A . has conducted an analysis of affixes in Joe Biden's victory speech. From the results of data analysis, the researcher found both inflectional and Derivation affixes in the victory speech of Joe Biden. In particular, there were eighty-Seven . inflectional affixes and fifty-two . derivational affixes. For the inflectional Affixes, there were eight . different types suffixes, such as. -s/es indicating AupluralAy, -s/es indicating Authird person singularAy, -ed indicating Aupast tenseAy, -ed/en Indicating Aupresent participleAy, -Aos, indicating Aupast participleAy, -ing, indicating AupossessiveAy, -er, indicating AucomparativeAy, -est, and indicating AusuperlativeAy. Considering prior studies. There have not been many researches on investigating speech of Bound Morpheme in terms of Inflectional Morphemes. Therefore, taking into account earlier study and the resources at hand, the researcher tries to examine the morphological Inflectional Morpheme presenting in Elon Musk's speech. Elon Musk is a He is the founder. CTO. CEO, and chief designer of SpaceX, as well as the CEO and chief product architect of Tesla. Inc. , the co-founder of Neuralink, and the co-founder and first co-chairman of Open AI. Many consider him to be the CEO of the future since he is a visionary who consistently pushes the limits of what is feasible in both engineering and He has the capacity to enthuse people about his goals, ideas, and intentions. serves as a role model for people of all generations. it is the obvious reason why the researcher is interested in analyzing bound morphemes on Elon Musk speech. However, this analysis aids in the discovery of new words, along with their meanings, grammatical structures, and In other words, analyzing bound morphemes in Elon Musk speech helps readers, especially English language learners, expand their vocabulary. Based on literature reviews above, this study aims to analyze Inflectional Morpheme in Elon Musk speech. Since Elon Musk speech is one of the phenomenal speeches, it is the obvious reason why the researcher is Interested in analyzing Inflectional Morpheme on Elon MuskAos speech. METHOD Research approach In the present research, the researcher applied a descriptive qualitative research design since the data were analyzed descriptively. According to (Creswell, 2. , descriptive qualitative research is intended to thoroughly examine the research topic. Moreover, descriptive qualitative research intends to describe how things are (Gay, 1. Throughout this research design, the researcher planned to collect, arrange and analyze the inflectional morpheme on the speech of Elon Musk. Instruments During the data collection process, the researcher was the key instrument since the researcher took roles as a research designer, a data collector, a data interpreter, and a result Besides, the researcher applied observation table and document analysis as other instruments to support collecting the data. Furthermore, the researcher employed two types of resources. primary and secondary data. The primary data was taken from Elon Musk's speech transcript. Meanwhile, several other references were used as secondary data to Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 support the findings. Data analysis In analyzing the data from the resources, the researcher adopted the data analysis design of Miles & Huberman . This data analysis design deals with three procedures: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. For this study, in the first step or data reduction, the words that contained affixes were selected and classified based on the affixes into three groups. They were suffix, prefix, or infix. The affixes detected in the speech were then included into the table in the second round of data display. This list helped the researcher draw the conclusion. The last step was drawing the conclusion. The conclusion was drawn based on the result of the two previous steps. RESULTS FINDING The data collection of this research was taken entirely from the script of Elon MuskAos speech in the Caltech graduating class during the 118th annual commencement ceremony on June 15, 2012 No. Tabel 1 Inflectional Morphemes of Plural marker -s Word Based Affixes Note Suffix Things Thing Plural Lessons Lesson Plural Years Year Plural Sorts Sort Plural Times Time Plural Assumptions Assumption Plural Questions Question Plural Physics Physic Plural Vehicles Vehicle Plural Batteries Batteries Plural Individuals Individual Plural Services Service Plural Outcomes Outcome Plural Needs Need Plural Paymens Payment Plural Problems Problem Plural Seeds Seed Plural Plants Plant Plural Rockets Rocket Plural Explorers Explorer Plural Parts Part Plural Engineers Engineer Plural Companies Companie Plural Cars Car Plural Perceptions Perception Plural Calculations Calculation Plural e-ISSN: 2962-8695 Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 Magicians Superlatives Bugs Pounds Magician Superlative Bug Pound Plural Plural Plural Plural Table 2 Inflectional Morphemes of Possesive marker Aos No. Word PeopleAos WorldAos NasaAos Based People World Nasa Suffix -Aos -Aos -Aos Note Possesive Possesive Possesive Tabel 3 Inflecional Morphemes of Third Person Singular marker -s No. Word Based Suffix Note Works Forces Tends Work Force Tend No. Tabel 4 Inflectional Morphemes of Past Tense marker -ed Word Based Suffix Note Advanced Granted Burned Considered Imagined Sudied Figured Started Decided Accused Integrated Interested Showed Closed Tried Called Dehydrated Intended Managed Returned Developed Created Advance Grant Burn Concider Imagine Study Figure Start Decide Accuse Integrate Interest Show Close Try Call Dehydrate Intend Manage Return Develope Create third person singular third person singular third person singular -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed -ed past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense past tense Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 Tabel 5 Inflectional Morphemes of Past Participle marker Aeen or -ed No. Word Based Suffix Note Responded Traveled Respond Travel -ed -ed past participle past participle Tabel 6 Inflectional Morphemes of Plural marker -ing Having Have -ing Progressive Things Thing -ing Progressive Lessons Lesson -ing Progressive Wondering Wonder -ing Progressive Going -ing Progressive Asking Ask -ing Progressive Inventing Invent -ing Progressive Being -ing Progressive Recommendi Recommend -ing Progressive Going -ing Progressive Landing Land -ing Progressive Buying Buy -ing Progressive Saying Say -ing Progressive Making Make -ing Progressive Blowing Blow -ing Progressive Passing Pass -ing Progressive Picking Pick -ing Progressive Writing Write -ing Progressive Spending Spend -ing Progressive Convincing Convince -ing Progressive Roadster Road -ing Progressive Coming Come -ing Progressive Overreaching Overreach -ing Progressive Biggest Big -est Superlative Furthest Far -est Superlative DISCUSSION The kinds of affixes that were used in Elon MuskAos speech For the inflecttional affixes, the affixes that occured were eighty-five . There were no prefixes. There were seven . different types of suffixes, such asa. -s/es indicating plural, -s/es indicating third person singular, -ed indicating past tense, -ed indicating past participle, -Aos indicating possessive, -ing indicating progressive, -est indicating From the result of the data analysis, the researcher found that the most dominant suffix that used in Elon MuskAos speech are suffixes that indicating plural marker Aes . , while the least data are suffixes that indicating past participle marker Aeed . and suffixes that indicating superlative marker Aeest . There is no suffixes that indicating comparative marker Aeer in the Elon MuskAos speech. Compare to the previous study, there were eight Jurnal Pendidikan dan Media Pembelajaran (JUNDIKMA) Vol. No. Desember 2023 e-ISSN: 2962-8695 different types of suffixes with plural marker Aes as a dominant one, while the least are suffixes that indicating comparative marker Aeer . CONCLUSION From the results of data analysis, the researcher found inflectional affixes in the Elon MuskAos speech. In particular, there were eighty-five . inflectional affixes. There were eight . different types suffixes, such as. -s/es indicating AupluralAy . , -s/es indicating Authird person singularAy . , -ed indicating Aupast tenseAy . , -ed/en indicating Aupast participleAy . , ing indicating AuprogressiveAy . , -Aos indicating AupossessiveAy . , and Aeest indicating superlative . As a result, suffixes Aes/es plural become the mostt dominant suffixed which are being used in Elon MuskAos speech. In addition, the other researchers are urged to design more studies using alternative data sources because the analysis of this work is still in its early Since the analysis of this paper is still limited on the inflectional morphemes in Elon MuskAos speech, the other researcher are suggesed to do additional research on Derivational Morphemes using songAos lyric or novel as a different data resources. REFERENCES