Sunday, 16 February 2014

Morphology

In linguistics, Morphology is the identification, analyses and description of the structure of given language morphemes, as well as other linguistic units such a root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation and stresses or implied context. The aim of morphology is the describe the form of words in language, it pins down the principles for relating the form and meaning of morphological expressions.

 The two main branches of morphology are lexical or derivational morphology, these studies the way in which new items of vocabulary can be built up out of combinations of elements (as in the case of in-destruct-able). inflectional morphology studies the ways words vary in their form in order to express a grammatical contrast (as in the case of horses, where the ending marks plurality)." The study of morphology helps speakers to acquire the skills of using them creatively, and consequently express their emotions and thoughts with fluency.






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