CHAPTER II A BRIEF VIEW OF MORPHOLOGY
2.1 Morphology
Morphology is a field of linguistics focused on the study of the forms and formation of words in a language.The word morphology can be used in two ways:
it refers to a subdiscipline of linguistics, but it may also be used to refer to that part of the grammar of a language. In present day linguistics, the term
‘morphology’ refers to the study of the internal structure of words, and of the
systematic form-meaning correspondences between words.
Morphology is the part of linguistics that deals with the study of words, their internal structure and partially their meanings. It is also interested in how the
users of a given language understand complex words and invent new lexical items. As morphology is concerned with word forms it is akin to phonology
which describes how words are pronounced, it is also related to lexical studies as the patterns examined by morphology are used to create new words. Furthermore,
it is also linked with semantics as it deals with the meanings of words.
Morphology, the study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds. At the
basic level, words are made of “morphemes”. These are the smallest units of meaning: roots and affixes prefixes and suffixes. Native speakers recognize the
morphemes as grammatically significant or meaningful. For example, “schoolyard” is made of “school” + “yard”, “makes” is made of “make” + a
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grammatical suffix “-s”, and “unhappiness” is made of “happy” with a prefix “un- ” and a suffix “-ness”.
2.2 Words
According to Matthews 1997 traditionally, a word is the smallest of units that make up a sentence, and marked as such in writing. Word is unit of language
that comes meaning and consist of one or more morpheme which are linked more or less tightly together and has a phonetically value, typically a word will consist
of root or stem and zero or more affixes word can be combine to create phrase, clause, and sentence.
Words can be chopped into smaller pieces. At the phonological level, words can be divided into syllables or segments, and segments into their
constituent phonological features. At the morphological level, words may consist of more than one unit as well.
Words are usually the easiest units to identify in the written language. So words are units composed of one or more morphemes; they are also the units of
which phrases are composed.
2.3 Morpheme
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