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
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
This volume presents a data-rich description of English inflection and word-formation. Based on large corpora including the Corpus of Contemporary American Engl