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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelDerivation is a process resulting in meaning and/or category changes
through the addition of derivational affixes. It is commonly applied for forming
various new words which are likely to be straightforward. The process is taken as
the object of investigation in the study since the writer was curious about the
phenomena resulted from it. To get the answer of the phenomena, the writer
decided to take three articles in Time magazine as the source of the data. In her
study, the writer used three main theories to do the analysis. The theory of Bauer
was used to analyze phonological changes. The theory of Quirk, et al. was applied
to discuss types of derivations, and the theory of O?Grady et al. to explain
structures of derived words. The writer did the research by reading the text,
identifying derivations through the existing words, and numbering each line
where the derived words occur. From the data collection, the writer described
types of derivations, types of structures of derived words as well as their
phonological changes. The findings show that there are three types of derivations,
namely derivational prefixation, derivational suffixation, and multiple derivations.
Relating to the types of derivations, there are also found 14 structures of derived
words: 3 structures relating to derivational prefixation, 4 structures relating to
derivational suffixation, and 7 structures concerning multiple derivations.
Furthermore, the application of derivation brings several phonological changes,
both in stress and sound. Generally derivational prefixation only brings the
changes in stress positions while derivational suffixation tends to change stress
and/or sound. Sometimes, however, derivational processes also do not make any
phonological changes. In conclusion, it can be stated that derivation does change
not only meaning and/or category but also phonological properties; indeed, the
structures of derived words can be various in numbers depending on the
categories of the bases and the types as well as the numbers of affixes attached to
the bases.