This is a short points about the the Aims of Morphology.

1. English Morphology
The Aims of Morphology
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Lectured by: Abdul Sabor “Safa”

2. The Aims of Morphology
• Morphology is one of the subfield of Linguistics.
• Generally it aims to describe the structure of words and
patterns of words formation in a language.
1. Adjusts the principles for the form and meaning of morphological
expressions.
2. Explains how the morphological units are integrated and the
resulting formation interpreted.
3. Show how morphological units contrast in the lexicon in terms of
similarity.

3. The Aims of Morphology
• The study of Morphology uncovers the lexical
resources of a language.
• It is essential to know the internal structure of
words and the division in different types it
needs two basic propose:
1. The modification of existing words.
2. The creation of new words.

4. Two Branches of Morphology
• the approaches divide the field into tow parts:
•
1. Lexical or Derivational morphology studies the
way in which new items of vocabulary can be
built.
2. Inflectional morphology which studies the ways
words vary in their forms in order to express a
grammatical contrast.
• They builds the basic divisions of
morphological branches.

5. The End
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