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What is morphology?
Morphology is the branch of linguistics that identifies basic units of language as units. Morphology studies the ins and outs of word forms and the effect of changes in word shape changes on word groups and meanings. The word morphology comes from the Greek "morphe" which is combined with "Logos".
Morphe: Form
Logos: Knowledge
So, based on the meaning of the elements of its formation, the word morphology means the science of form.
=> Scope of Morphology
1. Morpheme
is the smallest unit of form in a language that still has meaning and cannot be divided into smaller units. For example in the words carry, home, and play can not be divided again.
Example:
Word: Memperbesar : Enlarge
Mem- perbesar : enlarge
Per- besar : Per-large
If it is cut again, then be and sar have no meaning. Shapes like mem, spring, and large are called morphemes.
morpheme is divided into 2, namely:
1. Free Morpheme: is a morpheme that can stand alone, for example in big words.
2. Tied morpheme: is a morpheme that cannot stand alone but must be bound by free morpheme, for example Mem and Per
2. Allomorphs and Morphs
Alomorf is a member of the morpheme that has been determined its position. For example, ber, be, and bell are allomorphs of ber, as in the words singing, working and learning. while the allomorph is a morpheme whose position has not been determined. For example / i / in the word "kenai".
Conclusion
So, Morphology is studying the intricacies of word forms and the effects of change word form changes to the group and meaning of words and the functions of changes the form of the word itself. Which Morfology itself has a function, namely: For know how the word forms change, both from grammatical functions and semantics, Knowing how the ins and outs of words, Knowing how a the meanings arising from grammatical events, and studying general events, successive events occur, or in other words as a system in language.
