... instance the case for the Papuan languages of New Guinea In sum, morphology is only one of the means for expanding the lexicon of a language: there are other ways of creating lexical units, and the ... study of the form of words In present-day linguistics, the term morphology refers to the study of the internal structure of words, and of the systematic form–meaning correspondences between words ... words of our mother tongue than we actually use in language production In many languages, morphology is extremely important for the size of the lexicon In all European languages, the number of...