Morphology

1. Morphology

- The study of the structure and form of words in a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.
  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/morphology 

- The branch of linguistics (and one of the major components of grammar) that studies word structures, especially in terms of morphemes.
   http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/morphologyterm.htm

- Is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech,intonation/stress, or implied context.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)

Keywords:
- Study
- Linguistic
- Language
- Structure
- Words
- Morphemes

My definition:

Morphology is the branch of linguistic that studies the structure of words in a language, specially in morphemes.

2.  

Word	Definition	Example
Morpheme	A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. It does not necessarily have to be a word.	Cats: Has two morphemes. Cat is one and “s” is another morpheme.
Free Morpheme	A morpheme can be alone as a word without another morpheme.  It does not need anything attached to it to make a word.	Cat is a free morpheme. Happy is a free morpheme. You is a free morpheme.
Bound Morpheme	It cannot be alone as a word.   And it does not have any meaning without the free morpheme.	The s in cats, is a bound morpheme. "al" as derivational is a bound morpheme.
Prefix	An affix that comes before a base morpheme. It goes at the beginning of a word.	The “in”  in the word “inspect” is a prefix. Dis in the word Disadvantage.
Suffix	Is a group of letters placed at the end of a word to make a new word. It comes after a base morpheme.	s- Cat - Cats ing- Eat - Eating
Infix	Is a type of affix (prefix, suffix, or infix) that can be inserted within the base form of a word, to create a new word.	Agriculture Biotechnology
Affix	An affix is a word element (prefix, suffix, or infix), is also a bound morpheme that is joined before, after, or within a root or stem.	ion - Action by - bicycle in - inside
Derivational Morpheme	It changes the meaning of the word or the part of speech or both. Derivational morphemes often create new words.	dishonest infrequent
Inflectional Morpheme	An inflectional morpheme does not creates a change in the function of the word. This morpheme can only be a suffix.	diferences  eaten  sleeping  bigger

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/caneng/morpheme.htm


3. 

Word	Number of Syllables	Number of Morphemes
Unlikely	Un li ke ly  - Four syllabes	Un like ly -  Three morphemes
Happiness	Ha ppi ness - Three syllabes	Happy  ness - Two morphemes
Loves	Lo ves - Two syllabes	Love  s -  Two morphemes
Morphology	Mor pho lo gy - Four syllabes	Morpho  logy - Two morphemes
Syntax	Syn  tax - Two syllabes	Syn tax

 

4.  Word Formation Processes

Word Formation Processes	Definition	Example