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 explor

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical

A detailed survey of how English morphology has evolved from Old English to the present

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the