🦋 Morphology (linguistics) §

= the study of the internal construction of words using morphemes¹

📖 Examples: §

• Inflection: “dog” → Pl: “dogs”
• Derivation: “wide” → Adv: “widely”
• Compounding: “tea” & “kettle” → “tea kettle”

Footnotes §

1. Morphology definition ↩