Depending on what subject you’re studying, morphology can mean different things. In linguistics, morphology is the study of word formation, words, and how words relate to each other in a language.

Morphology addresses the structure and formation of words while inflectional paradigms represent the complete set of forms a lexeme may take to convey grammatical distinctions. In recent years, ...

Also available electronically as a PDF file or files (requires Adobe Actobat Reader). This work is an extended description of the structure of words in the Seneca ...

Jeff Good can speak to media about a variety of topics relating to language, its evolution and its use in daily life. Among other topics, he is an expert on the study of word and sentence structure ...

Children don’t have to be told that “cat” and “cats” are variants of the same word—they pick it up just by listening. To a computer, though, they’re as different as, well, cats and dogs. Yet it’s ...

Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language. When it comes to learning languages, adults and children have different strengths. Adults excel at ...

Professor, Multilingual Education and Associate Dean, Research, York University, Canada Learning a language after one’s early childhood home language is often referred to as second language learning ...