Most formal theories of syntax offer explanations of the systematic relationships
between syntactic form and semantic meaning. Syntactic category: is either a phrasal category, such as noun phrase or verb phrase, which can be decomposed into smaller syntactic categories, or a lexical category, such as noun or verb, which cannot be further decomposed. The lexical categories are traditionally called the parts of speech. They include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on. Morphology is a sub discipline 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. Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies such rules across and within languages. 2.