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An introduction to English morphology : words and their structure /

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 anothe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]
Edición:2nd edition.
Colección:Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.