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please some1 describe briefly the scope or subject matter of morphology.

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Oct 24, 2013 03:18

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Title: Nature and Scope of Morphology.

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Title: Nature and Scope of Morphology. Difference from syntax.

The term morphology is generally defined as the study of the internal structure of words. The ‘Morph’ means ‘shape’ or ‘form’, and ‘-ology’ means ‘the ‘study of something’ in Greek. Hence, as briefly we can say that the morphology is ‘The study of shape of words’. Since this study is mainly focus on words, sometimes morphology is misunderstood with syntax. This essay will talk about the nature and scope of morphology and clarify the difference syntax.

First, as mentioned above, morphology is the study of shape of words. There is an important concept which is called ‘morpheme’ in morphology. Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit. For example, if we see the word ‘cats’, we can identify that ‘cat’ means an animal, which has small ears on the head and has long tail, it usually smaller than dog, also their skin are covered by soft and long hair. On the other hand, ‘-s’ indicates a plural. If we look at the morpheme concept again, it is ‘minimal meaningful unit.’ Since ‘cat’ and ‘-s’ has each different meaning, we can count as there are 2 morphemes in the word ‘cats’. Also, more details, the word ‘cat’ can be used by itself. The morpheme, which can stand itself called ‘free morpheme’. If we look at the next morpheme ‘-s’, the word ‘-s’ itself has no meaning. But once it combine with a noun, the ‘-s’ indicates plural. The morpheme which can not stand itself called ‘bound morpheme’. The morphology is the study of the combination of morphemes to yield words