PREFIXES FOUND ON SELECTED BARACK OBAMA’S INSTAGRAM CAPTION: MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY

Authors

  • Ida Bagus Made Sadu Gunawan Universitas Hindu Indonesia
  • Ida Bagus Gde Nova Winarta Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar
  • Ni Ketut Riska Dewi Prawita Universitas Hindu Indonesia Denpasar

Keywords:

morphology, prefix, Instagram caption

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to interpret and describe the prefix type from Barack Obama's Instagram caption. It is because Barack Obama have good personal in the public, such as he is win the Nobel Peace Prize and third to win a Nobel Prize while in office. The name Barack means "one who is blessed" in Swahili. Barack Obama is the first African-American to be president of the Harvard Law Review. In English Morphology, there is Prefix and Suffix. But, in this study only discuss about prefix that was used by Barack Obama in Instagram Caption. Prefix in morphology is one of affixes, generally prefix is indicated as inflectional morphemes. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the types of the prefix by using theory from Lieber (2009). The data found was analyzed by using tree diagram. Based on the analysis the writer found some prefix, such as: re-, un-, in-, dis-, and auto-.

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Published

2025-03-26

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025): Volume 8, Issue 1 (2025)

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