Morphology is the study of forms
Morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their
relationship to other words in the same language
Morpheme: A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function (abstract
realization)
E.g: The word “ Talk|er “
1morpheme ↙ ↘1morpheme
The word talker consists of 2 elements described as Morphemes
→Units of grammatical functions include forms used to indicate {Past
tense, plural}
E.g: Re|open|ed
↙ ↓ ↘
Minimal Minimal Minimal
Unit of Unit of Unit of grammatical
Meaning Meaning Function
Morph: the physical realization { Phonetic shape of a morpheme }
E.g: The word “Mice”
How many Morphs I can see?
→ 1 Morph and its phonetic transcription is [maɪs]
How many Morphemes I can see?
→2 morphemes: Mouse + Plural
Allomorphs: Are different forms of the same morpheme or basic unit of
meaning that Gives you different phonetic representations
Book + s = Books S
Box + es = Boxes ɪz S{3 different forms for the same morpheme}
Bag + s = Bags Z
Zero morphs: we do not add any morph but we changed the word into the
plural form
E.g: Sheep→ sheep
Fish→ fish
