Monday, August 13, 2007

What is Morphology?

In the 19th century, the term Morphology is the study of the change in the forms of words. The term is taken from the biological science, and refers to the study of shapes. In Linguistics this means the study of the shapes of words.
Syntax is the study of ways in which words are strung together. Many traditional grammars (grammar books) deal largely with morphology and have little to say about syntax. For many people the term grammar is equated with Morphology . For most linguists today grammar includes both Morphology and Syntax.

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