morphology
/mɔɹˈfɑɫədʒi/
the study of word formation and internal structure
morphology in a sentence
“The morphology of 'unhappiness' reveals three meaningful units.”
Origin of morphology
Greek morphe (form) + -logia (study)
Related Words
deixis
words whose meaning depends on context (I, here, now, this)
anaphora
using a word to refer back to something mentioned earlier
polysemy
a single word having multiple related meanings
disambiguation
resolving which meaning is intended when multiple are possible
compositionality
the meaning of a whole derived from its parts and their arrangement
lexicon
the vocabulary of a language; a mental dictionary of words