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.
In linguistics, morphology /mÉrËfÉlÉµdÊi/ is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context.n this way, morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages and attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. Polysynthetic languages, such as Chukchi, have words composed of many morphemes.