Mastering Linguistic Morphology

Morphology in linguistics is the study of words, their formation, and their relationships in a word.

Morphology analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and meaning.

<p>Morphology differs from morphological typology, which is the classification of languages based on their use of words, and lexicology, which is the study of words and how they make up a language's vocabulary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Words, along with clitics, are generally accepted as being the smallest units of syntax.</p> Signup and view all the answers