Morphology

Word formation processes: Processes by which new words are formed, such as affixation, compounding, and conversion.

Morphological analysis: The process of breaking down words into their constituent morphemes and examining their meanings and functions.

Inflectional and derivational morphology: Inflectional morphology is the study of the ways words change to indicate tense, number, gender, and case. Derivational morphology is the study of the ways words change to create new words.

Morphological typology: The study of the types of morphological systems found in different languages, such as agglutinative and fusional.

Morphophonology: The study of the ways in which the phonological form of words is related to their morphological structure.

Morpheme classes and their functions: The different types of morphemes, such as roots, affixes, and clitics, and their roles in word formation and inflection.

Productivity: The degree to which a morpheme or word formation process can create new and meaningful words.

Morphological variability and change: The ways in which morphological systems can vary across dialects, time, and contact situations.

Lexical semantics and morphology: The relationship between meaning and form in words and how words are organized in the mental lexicon.

Corpus linguistics and morphology: The use of large databases of language to investigate morphological phenomena in real-world usage.

Inflectional Morphology: The study of how words are modified through inflectional processes, such as the addition of suffixes, prefixes, or infixes to the root form of a word to indicate tense, gender, number, or case.

Derivational Morphology: The study of how words are formed through the use of derivational processes, such as the addition of affixes to the root form of a word to create a new word with a different meaning.

Allocutive Morphology: The study of how different linguistic markers are used to indicate the social relationship between the speaker and the listener, such as through the use of honorifics to indicate respect or formality.

Morphophonological Morphology: The study of how the phonetic properties of a language interact with the morphological structure of words, such as how sounds may change as a result of morphological processes.

Usage-Based Morphology: The study of how morphological systems of a language evolve over time in response to patterns of usage, such as how irregular verbs may become regularized over time through repeated usage.

Lexical Morphology: The study of how individual words are formed and how they relate to one another, such as through the analysis of language roots, stems, and affixes.

Cognitive Morphology: The study of how aspects of the cognitive processing of language relate to the structure of morphological systems, such as how morphological structure can affect the cognitive processing of meaning.

Constructional Morphology: The study of how morphological structure interacts with larger syntactic structures to create meaning, such as how the use of passive voice may affect the form and meaning of a word.

Comparative Morphology: The study of how different languages use different morphological structures to convey meaning, such as how the use of agglutinative morphology differs from the use of fusional morphology in different languages.

Morphological Typology: The study of the typological properties of different morphological structures across different languages, such as the classification of languages into agglutinative, fusional, or other morphological types.