Morpheme in Film Transformers (Dark of The Moon)

Abstract

This study deals with the study of Derivational Morpheme in film Transformers series Dark of the Moon. The objectives of this study were to investigate the derivational prefix and suffixes use main characters when they dialog. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this study. The source of data in this study was taken from watching film in XXI and the social media like facebook. In collecting data, the researcher watching transformers film and then written the words and identifying each words or dialog from the main characters that containing the derivational prefix and suffix , Classifying the types derivational morphem which were used transformers film. The data were analyzed in two steps, selecting the words that contain the derivational morpheme, categorizing the words based on the types.

As mentioned above, bound morphemes consist of inflectional and derivational morphemes. Inflectional morphemes are those which do not create new meaning. These morphemes never change the syntactic category of the words or morphemes to which they are attached (Bauer, 1988: 12). They only refine and give extra grammatical information about the already existing meaning of words which they are attached to. Derivational morphemes, when combined with a root, change either the semantic meaning or part of speech of the affected word. For example, in the word happiness, the addition of the bound morpheme-ness to the root happy changes the word from an adjective (happy) to a noun (happiness). In the word unkind, un- functions as a derivational morpheme, for it inverts the meaning of the word for med by the root kind. Generally, the affixes used with a root word are bound morphemes. Transformers dark of the moon is the third sequel to the transformers series, after its two predecessors, Transformers (2007) and transformers revenge of the fallen (2009). Transformers dark of the moon tells the story of Optimus prime‘s efforts to thwart Megatron‘s plan use sentinel prime‘s technology to rule the earth and rebuild the planet Cybertron.