<P> Polysynthetic languages, such as Chukchi, have words composed of many morphemes . The Chukchi word "təmeyŋəlevtpəγtərkən", for example, meaning "I have a fierce headache", is composed of eight morphemes t - ə - meyŋ - ə - levt - pəγt - ə - rkən that may be glossed . The morphology of such languages allows for each consonant and vowel to be understood as morphemes, while the grammar of the language indicates the usage and understanding of each morpheme . </P> <P> The discipline that deals specifically with the sound changes occurring within morphemes is morphophonology . </P> <P> The history of morphological analysis dates back to the ancient Indian linguist Pāṇini, who formulated the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in the text Aṣṭādhyāyī by using a constituency grammar . The Greco - Roman grammatical tradition also engaged in morphological analysis . Studies in Arabic morphology, conducted by Marāḥ al - arwāḥ and Aḥmad b .' alī Mas'ūd, date back to at least 1200 CE . </P> <P> The term "morphology" was coined by August Schleicher in 1859 . </P>

Relate morphology with any other three branches of linguistics