Abstract:
This study deals with affixation in The Chaos poem by Charivamus (G.
Noslt Trenitf). The objectives of this study were to find out the types of an
affixation and the most dominant type of affixation in The Chaos poem by
Charivamus (G. Noslt Trenitf). Descriptive qualitative method was carried out
to analyze the data. The source of the data was taken from pronunciation‘s
book and web page https://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jnb/charivarius.html and this
research was carried out at library of UMSU on Jl. Kapten Muchtar Basri
No.53 Medan. The data collected were analyzed based on the types of
affixation they were prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, but in The Chaos
poem there were only two types such as prefixes and suffixes. Identifying
types of affixation in The Chaos poem by Charivamus (G. Noslt Trenitf) and
calculating the percentage of the types which are the most dominant type of
affixation. The percentage of affixation in The Chaos poem by Charivamus
(G. Noslt Trenitf) They were 72 items namely prefixes 9 items (12.5%) and
suffixes 63 items (87.5%) and suffixes inflextional affixes that the most
dominant between another suffixes was 18 items (25%). The most dominantly
type of affixation in The Chaos poem by Charivamus (G. Noslt Trenitf) is
suffixes (63) it meant suffixes was the dominant types. By understanding and
categorizing the types of affixation the readers are able to use affixation
accurately.
