Morphology

Definition Morphology

According to Mr.Agus article Grammar constitutes not only part of one’s knowledge but also a central and  Accordingto Leech (1969), morphology is defined as “the grammar of word” a technical term with a predictable Greek etymology, that comes from morphe meaning ‘form’ or ‘shape’.

Accordingly morphology examines or analyses words and/or morpheme as the
smallest meaningful grammatical unit which cannot be broken down into smaller unit.
As a sample of analyzing morphemes, the word enlarges in the sentence: ‘He enlarges
his vocabulary every day by reading a lot’ comprises three morphemes as can be seen in
the Figure 1, which follows namely: en-, ‘large’, and –s. Here both prefix en- and
suffix -s constitute the bound morpheme (BM) that provide incomplete meaning
because they cannot stand alone as a single word, whereas ‘large’ is a free morpheme
(FM), which, as a single word, can give us complete meaning.

In the opinion
of Haspelmath and Sims (2010, p. 11), morphology is “the study of the combination of morphemes to yield words”. Carstairs-McCarthy (2002) defines morphology as that part of grammar that deals with the structure of words and the relationships between words involving the morphemes which compose them.