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the secret blueprint that decides whether 'unbelievable' is one word or six tiny machines.
means The study of the structure and form of things — in language, how words are built from smaller meaningful parts; in biology, the shape and arrangement of an organism's body.
from From Greek 'morphē' (form, shape) plus '-logia' (study of). 'Morphē' is the same shape-word behind Morpheus, the god who could take any form, and 'metamorphosis,' a changing of shapes. The term was coined in the 19th century, first in biology, before linguists borrowed it to talk about the forms of words.
word atomsStudies morphemes, language's smallest units of meaning.
agglutinationTurkish stacks suffixes into single book-length words.
beyond wordsAlso names the study of biological form and shape.
infixes existSome languages insert pieces inside words, not outside.
abso-bloody-lutelyEnglish infixes swears mid-word with strict rules.