Morphology (definition)

• For a list of Morphology topics see Category: Morphology

Morphology is the study of the formation and structure of words. It is concerned with such topics as the formation of new words and compounds, and the nature of the internal structure of words, such as the study of suffixes and prefixes etc.

See Also

• Inflectional Morphology (definition)
• Derivational Morphology (definition).

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)

References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.