{"id":8460,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphology_-linguistics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:57","slug":"morphology_-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphology_-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphology (linguistics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In linguistics, a term that refers to the study of morphemes and other linguistic units (e.g., affixes, intonations, words), as well as also to the morphemic structure of a language (e.g., <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">un-<\/span>,<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"> happy, <\/span>and<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"> -ness in unhappiness<\/span>). &nbsp;It is thus the unit of language that is &#8216;one up&#8217; from phonemes. &nbsp;Typically, they are considered to be units of meaning, but they can also be treated as as part of language&#8217;s syntax or grammar. &nbsp;It is with morphology that differences between languages become apparent: languages that are isolating&#8217; (e.g., Chinese, Indonesian) use grammatical morphemes that function as separate words, &#8216;agglutinating&#8217; languages (e.g., Finnish, Turkish) use morphemes in the form of attached syllables (i.e., affixes), while &#8216;inflexional&#8217; languages (e.g., Arabic, Russian) proceed to alter a word at the phonemic level so as to express morphemes. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"affixes\">Affixes<\/a>, <a href=\"grammatical_marking\">Grammatical marking<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistics\">Linguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"morpheme\">Morpheme<\/a>, <a href=\"morphological_marking\">Morphological marking<\/a>, <a href=\"orthographic_reading_skills\">Orthographic reading skills<\/a>, <a href=\"orthography\">Orthography<\/a>, <a href=\"psycholinguistics\">Psycholinguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"syntax\">Syntax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In linguistics, a term that refers to the study of morphemes and other linguistic units (e.g., affixes, intonations, words), as well as also to the morphemic structure of a language (e.g., un-, happy, and -ness in unhappiness). &nbsp;It is thus the unit of language that is &#8216;one up&#8217; from phonemes. &nbsp;Typically, they are considered to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphology_-linguistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morphology (linguistics)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}