A Morpheme Analysis on The Text of Jakarta Post Newspaper

Abstract

This study attempted to describe and explain functions morpheme in the text of the Jakarta Post newspaper.  The method used for analyzing is the description method. This study was designed as qualitative study. This study was conducted on the text of Jakarta Post newspaper. The data were collected through reading the text of Jakarta Post newspaper, then underlying or marking sentences of the of Jakarta Post newspaper which contain morpheme, then divided into free morpheme and bound morpheme after that it is rewritten the data systematically. The analysis was concerned with: morpheme (free morpheme and bound morpheme and their functions. The results of this study show that (a) the text produced words with morpheme includes free and bound morpheme (b) the morphemes have their own functions