CHAPTER 1 What is Morphology The study of the internal structure of words and form is known as morphology This research is an important component of linguistics or the study of language Morphology is derived from Greek The term morph means shape and ology means the study of something Morphology is as a subdiscipline of linguistics was named for the first time in 1959 by the German Linguist August Schleicher who used this term for the study of the form of words vi 1CHAPTER 1 What is Morphology? The study of the internal structure of words and form is known as morphology. This research is an important component of linguistics, or the study of language. Morphology is derived from Greek. The term "morph" means "shape," and "-ology" means "the study of something". Morphology is ...as a subdiscipline of linguistics was named for the first time in 1959 by the German Linguist August Schleicher who used this term for the study of the form of words. vi 1