Kenneth Spalter, 72, of Pound Ridge, New York, was visiting St. Louis to meet his infant grandchild. But a confrontation on a quiet block of Tower Grove South turned deadly when sixteen-year-old carjacker Richard Donaldson opened fire, killing Spalter. Donaldson has been charged as an adult in the slaying. 10.
1 Phonology is the study of the sound system of a language or languages. 2  Morphology is a branch of biology which concerns the form and structure or organisms; this definition includes the form and structure of words within a language, and their modification. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that covers the grammatical arrangements of words within sentences, and how we use speech in communication. 2  Semantics deals with the study of meaning; how we combine words to create meaningful discourse. 3  It studies the relationship between signs and symbols and what they represent.
1 WHATS MORPHOLOGY?ï¢ a) Morphology is the study of the structure of words. - 2 Paradoxically, however, the concept of word itself defies simple definition. 3  In English, for example, words tend to be smaller than the sentence, and we combine words to form sentences. Words that have only one morpheme are also called monomorphemic words (e.g. pig). 2  Words with more than one morpheme are called polymorphemic words, as in foolishness (fool + ish + ness).ï¢. 3  4. MORPHEMES:minimal unit in which there is an arbitrary union of asound and a meaning (lexical meaning or grammaticalfunction).