Abstract :
Derivational suffix is a part of linguistics learn about word which added by
affixes may change the meaning and the part of speech. This research deals with
the derivational suffix of song lyrics. The researcher focuses on derivational suffix
types and function. The objectives of the research were to describe types and
function about change class changing and class maintaining in derivational suffix
in song lyrics. Descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The
techniques used in collecting the data is documentation This research applied the
theory of Plag (2002) to indentify the types of derivational suffix. From the
analysis, it is found that 36 derivational suffixes divided into 3 types, 21 nominal
suffix (is ?er, -tion ?al, -al ?ment ?ion ?ion, -ment ?ion ?ence -tion ?er ?ity ?ity ?
?ness ?ion ?ity ?ion, -ist ?ette, -age), 10 adverb suffix (-y, ?ly, ?ly, ?ly, ?ly, ?ly, ?
ly, ?ly, -ly, -ly), 5 adjective suffix (: -ful, -ly, -y, -ual, -able). The suffixes which
found in the data have 31 word class changing and 5 class maintaining,the
researcher conluded that suffix ?ly give many contributions in the suffix found in
lyrics of album.