The Place of Morphonology in Morphological Typology of Languages

Abstract

In the simplest terms, morphonology is a branch of linguistics which mainly occupies the combinatorial phonic modification of morphemes. Morphology studies the alternations series which serve a morphological function. The sound variations in words, their derivatives and grammatical form words, or known as sound alternations. For example: sing-song-sung, sit-set, long-length, send-sent, advice-advise, live-life.

Morphonological alternations are quite common in both the derivational and inflectional morphology of English, Russian and Uzbek languages.