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). It is thus the unit of language that is ‘one up’ from phonemes. Typically, they are considered to be units of meaning, but they can also be treated as as part of language’s syntax or grammar. It is with morphology that differences between languages become apparent: languages that are isolating’ (e.g., Chinese, Indonesian) use grammatical morphemes that function as separate words, ‘agglutinating’ languages (e.g., Finnish, Turkish) use morphemes in the form of attached syllables (i.e., affixes), while ‘inflexional’ languages (e.g., Arabic, Russian) proceed to alter a word at the phonemic level so as to express morphemes.
See Affixes, Grammatical marking, Linguistics, Morpheme, Morphological marking, Orthographic reading skills, Orthography, Psycholinguistics, Syntax