Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew

An introduction to English morphology : words and their structure / Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy - 2nd ed. - Edinbrugh : Edinbrugh University Press, 2018 - 154 p.

1. Introduction
2. Words, sentences and dictionaries
3. A word and it parts: roots, affixes and their shapes
4. A word and its forms: inflection
5. A word and its relatives: reading
6. A word and its relatives: derivation
7. Compound words, blends and phrasal words
8. A word and its structure
9. Productivity
10. The historical sources of English word formation
11. Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally


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English language--Morphology

425 / C2397