Explain what you mean by morphological analysis by stating its applications.
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A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. The linguistics field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. When a morpheme stands by itself, it is considered as a root because it has a meaning of its own (e.g. the morpheme cat) and when it depends on another morpheme to express an idea, it is an affix because it has a grammatical function (e.g. the –s in cats to indicate that it is plural).[1] Every word comprises one or more morphemes.
Explanation:
Morphology is the branch of linguistics which seeks to determine the base units of meaning within a given language. A morpheme is the smallest unit of language which is individually meaningful. ... In this example, the questioner is able to understand that the respondent enjoys tea. “Tea” is thus a free morpheme.