Odia grammar is the study of the morphological and syntactic structures, word order, case inflections, verb conjugation and other grammatical structures of Odia, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.
Morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in the Odia language.
Morphemes (called ରୁପିମ) are the smallest units of the Odia language that carry and convey a unique meaning and is grammatically appropriate.
In other words, in the Odia language, the morpheme is a combination of sounds that possess and convey a meaning.
A synthetic language tends to employ affixes and internal modification of roots (i.e. free morphemes – Bases) for the same purpose of expressing additional meanings.
It contains definite synthetic features, such as the bound morphemes mark tense, number (plurality), gender etc.
However, though the Odia language has a larger number of derivational affixes, it has virtually no inflectional morphology.
Odia morphemes of different types (nouns, verbs, affixes etc.)
Because of this tendency, Odia is said to "possess morphology" since almost each used word has an internal compositional structure in terms of morphemes.
Such examples abound in Odia grammar and are termed as similarly pronounced words (ସମୋଚ୍ଚାରିତ ଶବ୍ଦ).
Units which are not independent words but convey meaning on account of their usage on combination are bound morphemes.
Odia has innumerable inflectional morphemes, unlike only seven in English Language.
Among others, these include the following: In Odia morphology, there are no adjective and adverb inflections like the comparative (-er) and superlative (-est) of English language.
In linguistics, a marker is a morpheme, mostly bound, that indicates the grammatical function of the target (marked) word or sentence.
Though gender plays no major role in grammatical agreement between subject and predicate but it is accounted for in nominal inflections.
They are added to the nominal stems formed by noun-genitive case markers.