The Significant Contribution of Morphology to the Study of the English Language (original) (raw)

Morphology has vital impact on the development and perception of English words. As a major level of linguistic analysis it plays a considerable role in producing and building thousands of English words. English derives a huge number of words on a daily basis from all the languages of the world and morphology gives you an idea about the source of the words with rules and regulations on how to form new words. In view of the above submission, this paper examines the significant contribution of morphology to study of English language taking into cognizance that the morphology is the study of word structure as well as word formation processes. Also, it reviews the usefulness of morphemic awareness in learning English Language. The paper is divided into two sections; the first section reviews the concept of morphology, morpheme, and word formation process. The second section focuses on scholarly review of morphemic awareness, its relevance and the significant contributions of morphology to the study of English Language.

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