formmorphology

Formmorphology is a subfield of linguistics that focuses on the study of the internal structure of words, particularly their morphology. Morphology deals with the formation of words through the combination of smaller units called morphemes. These morphemes can be free morphemes, which can stand alone as words (e.g., "book"), or bound morphemes, which cannot stand alone and must be attached to a free morpheme (e.g., "-s" in "books").

Formmorphology examines how morphemes are combined to form words, the types of morphemes that exist, and the rules governing their combination. It includes the study of inflectional morphology, which involves the modification of words to express grammatical categories such as tense, number, and case; and derivational morphology, which involves the creation of new words through the addition of affixes.

Formmorphology is crucial for understanding the structure and formation of words in a language, as well as for analyzing the relationships between different words. It is a fundamental aspect of linguistic theory and has applications in various fields, including language teaching, natural language processing, and computational linguistics.