Inflectional and Derivational Affixes in the Selected Captions on the Folkative Instagram Account

Abstract

This study aims to examine inflectional and derivational affixes in the captions of posts on the Folkative Instagram account. By taking data from the captions of posts on the Folkative Instagram account, the researcher found that the use of affixes is often found in writing captions. The types of affixes used include two affixes, namely inflectional and derivational affixes. Inflectional affixes are affixes that do not change the word class. This affix has eight types consisting of plural, possessive, comparative, superlative, present, past, present participle, and past participle. In addition to these eight types, other affixes are classified into derivational affixes that could change the meaning or word class. Furthermore, this study aims to find the most frequently and least frequently used affixes in the captions of posts on the Folkative Instagram account. This study used a qualitative descriptive method to analyze data based on Noam Chomsky's theory (2015). The researcher found that the Folkative Instagram account uses more inflectional affixes in its post captions. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Folkative Instagram account uses more affixes that could not change word classes.