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title: Morphology & Syntax
description: This subject examines the internal structure of words and the rules governing sentence formation. Learners will understand how morphemes combine to form words and how words are arranged structurally to create meaningful sentences across languages.
category: social-sciences
subcategory: linguistics
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/morphology-and-syntax
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# Morphology & Syntax

This subject examines the internal structure of words and the rules governing sentence formation. Learners will understand how morphemes combine to form words and how words are arranged structurally to create meaningful sentences across languages.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 2 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Introduction to Syntax

Learn the fundamentals of sentence structure with Patrick Farrell's Introduction to Syntax course! Explore morphology & syntax basics.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD44AB23FFAF3647B

**Tags:** syntax, generative-grammar, sentence-structure, linguistics, lecture-series

### 2. Conciencia Lingüística

Spanish-language course from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana covering the language faculty, phonetics, and Spanish word formation. Students finish able to classify sounds and phonemes, analyse inflection, derivation and compounding, and describe the grammatical behaviour of each word class.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/conciencia-lingstica

**Tags:** spanish-linguistics, phonetics, morphology, word-formation, grammar

## Websites

### 1. linguistics.stackexchange.com

Linguistics Stack Exchange is a community-driven Q&A platform where researchers and enthusiasts ask, answer, and discuss topics across subfields like morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Content consists of user-submitted questions with expert- or community-provided answers, organized by tags and voted to highlight the best explanations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://linguistics.stackexchange.com

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, linguistics

## Books

### 1. Introducing Morphology

**Author:** Rochelle Lieber

Cambridge undergraduate textbook on word structure. Works through morphemes, derivation, inflection, compounding and productivity, with cross-linguistic data and exercises, so readers can analyse unfamiliar word forms and argue for a morphological analysis.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521895499?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, linguistics

### 2. Syntax: A Generative Introduction

**Author:** Andrew Carnie

Textbook introduction to generative syntax. Builds from constituency tests and phrase-structure rules to X-bar theory, binding, movement and case, with problem sets that train readers to draw trees and test syntactic hypotheses against data.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0631225447?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, linguistics

### 3. Morphology

**Author:** P. H. Matthews

Concise Cambridge survey of word formation and inflection, weighing morpheme-based against word-and-paradigm approaches. Readers come away understanding why the morpheme is a contested unit and how classical and modern theories of word structure differ.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521422566?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, linguistics

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