Bestselling introduction to English morphology, now revised and updatedWhat exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they

The experience of having taught English language and morphology – syntax in particular – for more than seven years convinced the author that students of lin

Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, word-formation mechanisms that give rise to new words, and mechanisms that

The first comprehensive description of English word formation covers inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and minor processes such as subtractive

This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words --