What is the term for the study of word structure?
Morphology
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Answer
Morphology, the study of word structure, examines how words are formed from smaller units called morphemes. Morphemes are the minimal units of meaning in a language, and they can be either free (able to stand alone as words) or bound (only occurring as part of a word).
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