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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
[2018]
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| Édition: | 2nd edition. |
| Collection: | Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.