Derivational and inflectional morphemes in The Jakarta Post

Many people do not know that morpheme and word are interrelated. A word can be a morpheme and can be form by combination of morphemes. Moreover, there are many types of morpheme with its function that affects either the sentence or the meaning. Because of the morpheme impact, the
writer wants to analyse about morpheme in the articles from The Jakarta Post newspaper by its appropriateness for analysis. The write relates it to the theory from Victoria Fromkin about the types of morpheme; those are derivational and inflectional morpheme. This analyses aim to find out which word formed by derivational morpheme, which word formed by inflectional morpheme, how the indicated word formed and what kind of alteration are found. The writer uses the descriptive qualitative method. From 6 data for derivational morpheme, the writer found 8 words formed by derivational morpheme and from 8 data for inflectional morpheme, there are 29 words formed by inflectional morpheme. From the data, the writer found that each morpheme has its function and impact the meaning, class of word or the grammatical function of the base word. By this paper, people know how prefixes and suffixes affect the word.