Morphology

[R B Habib]

What is morphology?

The term morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning 'shape, form', and -ology which means 'the study of something'. The term is used not only in linguistics but also in biology as the scientific study of forms and structure of animals and plants, and in geology as the study of formation and evolution of rocks and land forms. We are going to stick to morphology in linguistics, as the scientific study of forms and structure of words in a language. Morphology as a sub-discipline of linguistics was named for the first time in 1859 by the German linguist August Schleicher who used the term for the study of the form of words. Today morphology forms a core part of linguistics.

English Phonetics and Phonology

[fatema_diu]

very informative for the students!

[R B Habib]

Thanks Apu

[Antara11]

Really informative. 

[R B Habib]

Thanks apu