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Morphology vs Posture - What's the difference?

morphology | posture |

As nouns the difference between morphology and posture

is that morphology is (uncountable) a scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function especially: while posture is the way a person holds and positions their body.

As a verb posture is

to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.

morphology

English

Noun

(wikipedia morphology)
  • (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).
  • #* {{quote-web
    • , 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 }}
  • 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 .
  • # (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.

    • Derived terms

    * macromorphology * micromorphology * morphological * morphologist * morphosyntax

    Related terms

    * morpheme * morphotactics

    See also

    * . * English words suffixed with -ology

    posture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The way a person holds and positions their body.
  • * 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture .
  • * 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
    • ...walking in a most dejected posture , without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
  • * 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture . It is most indecorous.
  • A situation or condition.
  • * 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
    • Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs...
  • * 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
    • Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
  • One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  • * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    • ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
  • * 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
    • But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
  • (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  • * 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
    • The Moon beheld in any posture , in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.

    Verb

    (postur)
  • to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
    • If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
  • to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
    • The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
  • To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
    • to posture''' oneself; to '''posture a model
    (Howell)

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