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competing theories about how much grammar and logic is
necessary, how much is expressed in the lexicon, and how

much is expressed in the linguistic system outside the
lexicon. Lexically based theories suggest that the grammar

rules should be simple and that most of the syntactic
complexity should be encoded in the lexicon. Some linguists
say that most of the syntactic complexity isn't syntactic at

all. It is the result of interactions among the logical
structures of the underlying concepts. In his work on
semantically based syntax, Dixon (2012) showed that

syntactic irregularities and idiosyncrasies can be predicted
from the semantics of the words. Such theories imply that a

language processor would only need a simple grammar if it
had sufficiently rich semantic structures. The lexicon is the
place where those semantic structures are stored.

b. A theory of Morphology
Morphology is the study of words, how they are

formed, and their relationship to other words in the same
language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of
words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and
stress, and the ways context can change a word's

pronunciation and meaning. Morphology differs from
morphological typology, which is the classification of
languages based on their use of words and lexicology, which

is the study of words and how they make up a language's
vocabulary.

8 | Fatma Yuniarti, M.Pd., B.I