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.

Using the definition provided on What is Morphology? section of the site, complex words are analysed in relation to the different positioning of their morphemes and their function. The diagram below ...

*-ing on words such as jumping, running, borrowing, boxing. Take the first example ‘jumping’ Split it into two morphemes: one free morpheme (jump) and one bound morpheme (-ing) Once you identify that ...