Analogy vs Morphology - What's the difference?
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A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
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* 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 18:
* 1901 , , The Valley of Decision , ch. 12:
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* 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733,
(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
# (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
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, year = 2001
, author = Yehuda Falk
, title = Lexical-Functional Grammar
, site = CSLI Publications
, url = http://www.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/pdf/1575863405.pdf
, accessdate = 2014-02-25
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# (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
# (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
(countable) The form and structure of something.
(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
As nouns the difference between analogy and morphology
is that analogy is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation while morphology is (uncountable) a scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function especially:.analogy
English
(wikipedia analogy)Noun
(analogies)- Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
- Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
- The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
How to Write Programs," Time , 3 Jan.:
- Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
p. 75:
- A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
Derived terms
* disanalogy * false analogySee also
* metaphor * simile * example * homology * parable * parallelism English words prefixed with ana-morphology
English
Noun
(wikipedia morphology)- There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology', on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and ' morphology .