Editing Morphology (linguistics) (section)

==History==
The history of [[History of India|ancient Indian]] morphological analysis dates back to the linguist [[Pāṇini]], who formulated the 3,959 rules of [[Sanskrit]] morphology in the text ''[[Ashtadhyayi|Aṣṭādhyāyī]]'' by using a [[constituency grammar]]. The Greco-Roman grammatical tradition also engaged in morphological analysis.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beard |first1=Robert |title=Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: A General Theory of Inflection and Word Formation |url=https://archive.org/details/lexememorphemeba00bear |url-access=limited |date=1995 |publisher=NY: State University of New York Press |location=Albany |isbn=0-7914-2471-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lexememorphemeba00bear/page/n18 2], 3}}</ref> Studies in Arabic morphology, including the ''Marāḥ Al-Arwāḥ'' of Aḥmad b. 'Alī Mas'ūd, date back to at least 1200 CE.{{sfn|Åkesson|2001}}

The term "morphology" was introduced into linguistics by [[August Schleicher]] in 1859.{{efn|''Für die lere von der wortform wäle ich das wort « morphologie», nach dem vorgange der naturwißenschaften<!--, weil --> [...]'' "Für die Lehre von der Wortform wähle ich das Wort "Morphologie", nach dem Vorgange der Naturwissenschaften [...]", "For the science of word-formation, I choose the term 'morphology' [...])}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=August |last=Schleicher |title=Zur Morphologie der Sprache |encyclopedia=Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg |series=VII° |volume=I, N.7 |location=St. Petersburg |date=1859 |page=35}}</ref>