morphology

Examples

• All

• Languages differ on a multitude of structural levels, including phonology, morphology, and syntax.

  Academic text (2013)

• Midtowns have an increasingly important role in the morphology of North American cities.

  Academic text (1998)

• How could one possibly move from this limited morphology to a reconstruction of the animal?

  Academic text (1990)

• Phonology is sounds, morphology is words.

• As mentioned above, morphological awareness necessarily involves a conscious analysis of morphology within spoken and written language.

  Academic text (2014)

• English inflectional morphology is limited, but the derivation process is richer.

  Academic text (2012)

• Specific language subsystems such as syntax or morphology skills may differentially predict reading outcomes.

  Academic text (2013)

• Due to its complex, three-dimensional morphology, auricular reconstruction remains one of the most challenging procedures in reconstructive surgery.

  Academic text (2012)

• The analysis is based on Propp's morphology of the folktale, an influential model in structuralist narratology.

  Academic text (2005)

• The young narrator's language makes her ethnicity quite clear in its phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

  Academic text (2003)

Compounds

C

compound morphology

• Specialized

7.1

The study of how two words join to make new words like toothbrush

D

derivational morphology

• Specialized

8.7

Making new words by adding prefixes or suffixes to other words

I

inflectional morphology

• Specialized

9.3

The way word endings change to show tense, number, or case

R

rule of morphology

• Specialized

7.4

A way that shows how words are made and changed in a language

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology