"In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language."
The study of how words are constructed from smaller units called morphemes.
"It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes."
"Morphology differs from morphological typology, which is the classification of languages based on their use of words."
"Morphology differs from lexicology, which is the study of words and how they make up a language's vocabulary."
"In most languages, many words can be related to other words by rules that collectively describe the grammar for that language."
"English speakers recognize that the words dog and dogs are closely related, differentiated only by the noun-bound plurality morpheme "-s"."
"Classical Chinese has very little morphology, using almost exclusively unbound morphemes ("free" morphemes) and it relies on word order to convey meaning."
"Most words in modern Standard Chinese ["Mandarin"], however, are compounds and most roots are bound."
"The rules understood by a speaker reflect specific patterns or regularities in the way words are formed from smaller units in the language they are using."
"Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages and attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of the speakers of those languages."
"Studies have indicated that the presence of modification in phonology and orthography makes morphologically complex words harder to understand."
"Morphologically complex words are easier to comprehend when they include a base word."
"Polysynthetic languages, such as Chukchi, have words composed of many morphemes."
"The morphology of such languages allows for each consonant and vowel to be understood as morphemes."
"The grammar of the language indicates the usage and understanding of each morpheme."
"The discipline that deals specifically with the sound changes occurring within morphemes is morphophonology."
"Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and meaning."
"While words, along with clitics, are generally accepted as being the smallest units of syntax."
"Morphology also looks at [...] the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and meaning."
"Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages and attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of the speakers of those languages."