Morphological Typology. Languages can be classified into groups based on a number of different linguistic criteria. One such way to categorize languages is by the type and extent of morphology that they use. For example, some languages string many morphemes together while others languages tend to realize most words as independent or mono-morphemic ...

The term ‘morphological typology’ has been traditionally associated with the division of languages into basic ‘holistic’ types that could be used to characterize a complete language. Characterization of the morphological complexity of words is the sense in which morphological typology has traditionally been understood.

Morphological Typology •Languages have a wide variety of morphological processes available (e.g. different types of affixation, etc.) for creating words and word forms. •However, languages vary with respect to what morphological processes are available, how frequently they are used, and what types of information can be encoded in these processes.