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  2. Morphology (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Morphology of a male skeleton shrimp, Caprella mutica Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features. [1]This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, color, pattern, size), i.e. external morphology (or eidonomy), as well as the form and structure of internal parts like bones and organs, i.e. internal ...

  3. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee [1]) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. [2] [3] Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some independent meaning.

  4. Morphology - Wikipedia

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    Morphology (biology), the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof; Morphology (folkloristics), the structure of narratives such as folk tales; Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure and content of word forms; Morphology (sociology), the analysis of the typical social form taken by human relations and practices

  5. Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    One important and unique event in plant morphology of the 21st century was the publication of Kaplan's Principles of Plant Morphology by Donald R. Kaplan, edited by Chelsea D. Specht (2020). [36] It is a well illustrated volume of 1305 pages in a very large format that presents a wealth of morphological data.

  6. Morphological derivation - Wikipedia

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    Derivational morphology changes both the meaning and the content of a listeme, while inflectional morphology doesn't change the meaning, but changes the function. A non-exhaustive list of derivational morphemes in English: -ful, -able, im-, un-, -ing, -er.

  7. Morphophonology - Wikipedia

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    Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes. . Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes (minimal meaningful units) when they combine to form wo

  8. Morphological typology - Wikipedia

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    These languages have a high morpheme-to-word ratio, a highly regular morphology, and a tendency for verb forms to include morphemes that refer to several arguments besides the subject (polypersonalism). Another feature of polysynthetic languages is commonly expressed as "the ability to form words that are equivalent to whole sentences in other ...

  9. Morphological pattern - Wikipedia

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    The term is used in the domain of lexicons and morphology. Note. It is important to distinguish the paradigm of a lexeme from a morphological pattern.