For the students of language, words are a very rewarding object of study. An understanding of the nature of words provides us with a key that opens the door to an understanding of important aspects of the nature of language in general. Words give us panoramic view of the entire field of linguistics because they impinge on every aspect of language structure
Traditionally, grammar is conviently divided into two portions: morphology and syntax. The study of word-formation and word-structure is called morphology. Crystal (1992) stated that morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure of the word. Morphological theory provides a general theory of word-structure in all the languages of the world. Its task is to characterize the kinds of thing that speakers need to know about the structure of the word of their language in order to be able to use them to produce and to understand speech.
Here, you can download a short paper about Inflection and Derivation in Morphology. Click here to download
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