Contemporary Linguistics An Introduction By William O Grady John Archibald Mark Aronoff Janie Re
ucture of words. It investigates morphemes, the smallest units of meaning or grammatical function, and how they combine to form words. Examples include: - Roots (e.g., book) - Affixes (e.g., -s, un-, -ed) - Compound words (e.g., notebook) Syntax Syntax concerns