词法

詞法
cífǎ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 morphology (linguistics)
  2. 2 word formation and inflection

Examples

Hànyǔ de cífǎ hé Yìn-Ōu yǔ chāyì hěn dà.
Chinese morphology differs greatly from that of Indo-European languages.
Zhè běn yǔfǎ shū fēn wéi cífǎ hé jùfǎ liǎng bùfèn.
This grammar book is divided into morphology and syntax.

Tips

usage
The grammar pair: 词法 (morphology, word-level) and (jùfǎ, syntax, sentence-level). Together they make up 语法 (yǔfǎ, grammar). Chinese has minimal inflection, so 词法 mostly covers compounding and word classes.

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