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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixesparts of speechintonations and stresses, or implied context. In contrast, morphological typology is the classification of languages according to their use of morphemes, while lexicology is the study of those words forming a language's .

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word form

Noun
1. the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
(synonym) form, signifier, descriptor
(hypernym) word
(hyponym) plural, plural form
(classification) linguistics