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What are the nature of Morphology?
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Answered by killergirl01
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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.

In this second paragraph, it will be classified the difference between morphology and syntax. First, let us compare the way of approaches. As mentioned in first paragraph, the morphology is the study of internal structure. The term ‘morpheme’ deals main object to analyze in morphology. On the other hand, syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with the grammatical arrangement of words word and morphemes in the sentence of a language or of languages in general.

For example, if we look at the sentence:

John studied a lot today.

As a morphology approach, first we segment these words as morpheme. ‘John’ is a person’s name, so this is one morpheme. As next, we can find out the 2 meanings from the word ‘studied’. One is the verb ‘study’ and other is ‘-ed’ indicates past form. We can identify there are 6 morphemes in the above sentence.

As a syntactic approach, we can consider ‘John’ as a Subject of this sentence, ‘studied’ is a verb, and ‘a lot’ indicates adverb, and today is adverb. And make the below tree diagram.

     

     S

/ l \

NP   VP    adv

l l l l

N V adv today

l l l

John studied a lot

As a conclusion, we can say that the differences between morphology and syntax are first, the object of research. Morphology focuses on the internal structure of word, which is morpheme. Syntax focuses on the grammatical structure of words. Second, the research approaches are different. While the morphology segments the morpheme from the word by each meaning, Syntax analyzes the sentence structure and identifies the function of each word.

Although, we can say that morphology and syntax are very close relationship. Since both subjects are sub disciplines of grammar. Hence, we can say that while studying one of the subject, as simultaneously we also learning another one.

Answered by SugamMitra
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