An Introduction to English Morphology
Words and Their Structure (2nd edition)
Edition: 2
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. He explains the various ways in which words are related to one another, and shows how the history of the English language has affected word structure.
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
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The author has managed to make the material both clear and challenging; exercises and recommended reading for each chapter help to achieve this.
I’m delighted to see this classic textbook updated and improved to bring Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy’s learned but easily approachable text to new generations of students. Carstairs-McCarthy has a knack for making theory comprehensible and for providing apt examples to illustrate his points.
