INFLECTIONAL AFFIXES IN OLIVIA RODRIGO’S SONG LYRICS IN SOUR ALBUM

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out and describe the types of inflectional affixes found in Olivia Rodrigo’s song lyrics in Sour album based on Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams theory (2011: 51). The data of this research will be all words from the song lyrics Sour album by Olivia Rodrigo which contain inflectional affixes. This study applied descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The writer found 7 types of inflectional affixes used in Sour album. There are 135 total data; 16 data categorized into third-person singular present inflection, 37 data categorized into past tense inflection, 27 data categorized into present progressive inflection, 13 data categorized into past participle inflection, 37 data categorized into plural inflection, 2 data categorized into possessive inflection, and 3 data categorized into comparative inflection. There are no superlative inflections used in Sour album song lyrics.