✍✍Morphology✍
Morphology is the description given to the structure of a languages morphemes and other linguistic units. These linguistic units are elements such as: root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context.
A part of Morphology is distinguishing between the different ways of changing a current word, either through inflectional change or word formation. An example of an inflectional change would be the word dog becoming dogs when referring to the plural. An example of word formation is creating the word dogcatcher from dog.
Inflectional changes are where a lexeme is changed for a plural but the true essence of the word doesn't change, on the other hand word formation changes the meaning of the word but retains the use of the original lexeme.
Lexicology
Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that deals with the study of words, this may also include the function as symbols and their meaning. The term lexicology is derived from the Greek word lexicon which means "of our words".
Inside the study of the Lexicology, there is a subsystem called, Computational Lexicology, this covers the study of dictionaries.
Lexicology also has a cousin known as Lexicography which integrates conventional Lexicology and Computational Lexicology, it involves the integration of the study of words as well as their link to written texts and dictionaries.
While many people believe that Lexicography is a division of Lexicology, technically speaking people who write dictionaries are lexicographers and not lexicologists.
Lexicology in some areas encompasses the fields of syntax and semantics, the link between Semantics and Lexicology is called Lexical Semantics.
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