What is your understanding of the basics of morphology?

Morphology

Morphology

by Gul Bahar Kham s/d/o Azad Khan -
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Morphology 

1: Morphology  is the study of internal structure of words .

2 : Morphology is the study of systematic covariation in the form and meaning of words.

3 : Morphology is the study of the combination of morphemes to yield words .

Morpheme

   A Morpheme is the smalest meaningful unit in language .    Ex:  cats  one word and two morphemes  cat +s . 

Types of morpheme 

1 : Free morphemes

2 : Bound morphemes

     1 : Free morphemes

      Free morphemes are those can stand alone as individual words .

     2 : Bound morphemes 

     Bound morphemes can not stand alone as individual words .