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Morphology is a subfield of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words and their formation. It emerged in the 19th century and focuses on analyzing word structure using meaningful units called morphemes, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Morphology examines how words are formed, classified based on their structure and meaning, and how their forms evolve over time through processes like inflection and derivation.
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- 2. Introduction Importance of Morphology in linguistics Emergence of Morphology Morphology Conclusion
- 3. Importance of Morphology The study of word classes and their classification criteria Etymology is Greek Emergence in 19th century Focus Word structure The evolution of words • Morphemes…Meaningful units
- 4. Structure and form of words Structure of words He Boy boy-s boy-ish Morpheme-single meaningful unit of word Morphemes Like -Likes-Liked -Liking –Likeness –Unlike-Unlikely
- 5. How many morphemes? How many morphemes? • Chair • He • Is • boy • Sadness • Teacher • Plays • boyish Further classification Bound Free Derivational Inflectional Lexical functional
- 6. Conclusion So , it can be concluded that Morphology is the study of the internal structure of word
- 7. Thank You
Editor's Notes
- Morpholgy is all about morphemes