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Chapter 3 Morphology Introduction Question: Why words are the most important factor to language? 1)Carrying meanings 2)Building blocks of a language 3) Stored in a speaker’s mental dictionary (lexicon) 4)As a native speaker, they grasp a quantity of basic words, yet they can construct and comprehend other countless words in terms of some rules of word constitution. Morphology Morphology is a branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. For example: dislike, disagree, and disadvantages