An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure (2nd Edition)

ISBN-13: 9781474428965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 168 str.

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

Opis

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Words, sentences and dictionaries

3. A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes

4. A word and its forms: inflection

5. A word and its relatives: derivation

6. Compound words, blends and phrasal words

7. A word and its structure

8. Productivity

9. The historical sources of English word formation

10. Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally

Discussion of the exercises; Glossary; References