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

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

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

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.

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 --