This is a very useful site for an instructor hoping to implement the use of peer review in any subject. Melanie Dawson of the University of Richmond's Writing Center has prepared a Peer Editing Guide (more info) .
morphology. n. 1. (Biology) the branch of biology concerned with the form and structure of organisms. 2. (Linguistics) the form and structure of words in a language, esp the consistent patterns of inflection, combination, derivation and change, etc, that may be observed and classified. 3. the form and structure of anything.
Morphology is a subdiscipline of linguistics that studies word structure. While words are generally accepted as being the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that in most (if not all) languages, words can be related to other words by rules.exical morphology is the branch of morphology that deals with the lexicon, which, morphologically conceived, is the collection of lexemes in a language. As such, it concerns itself primarily with word-formation: derivation and compounding.