The morphological analysis aims at splitting the word into its constituent morphemes – the basic units at this level of analysis – and at determining their number and types.
The segmentation of words is carried out according to the method of Immediate and Ultimate Constituents (ICs and UCs).
It is based on binary principle. Each stage of the procedure involves 2 components the word immediately breaks into.
At each stage these 2 components are named Immediate Constituents (ICs). Each IC at the next stage of analysis is broken into smaller meaningful elements. The analysis is completed when we get constituents incapable of future division – morphemes. These are named UCs.