Title:
An introduction to English morphology : words and their structure / Andrew Carstairs-mccarthy.
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
Author:
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew, 1945- author.
General Notes:
Previous edition: 2002., Previous edition: 2002.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
Publication Place:
Edinburgh :
ISBN:
9781474428972
1474428975
9781474428965
1474428967
9781474428989
9781474428996
1474428991
9781474428996
Subject:
English language -- Morphology.
English language -- Morphology.
Series:
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
Edition:
Second edition.
Contents:
Introduction Recommendations for reading Words, sentences and dictionaries Words as meaningful building-blocks of language Words as types and words as tokens Words with predictable meanings Non-words with unpredictable meanings Conclusion: words versus lexical items Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes Taking words apart Kinds of morpheme: bound versus free Kinds of morpheme: root, affix, combining form Morphemes and their allomorphs Identifying morphemes independently of meaning Conclusion: ways of classifying word-parts Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading A word and its forms: inflection Words and grammar: lexemes, word forms and grammatical words Regular and irregular inflection Forms of nouns Forms of pronouns and determiners Forms of verbs Forms of adjectives Conclusion and summary Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading A word and its relatives: derivation Relationships between lexemes Word classes and conversion Adverbs derived from adjectives Nouns derived from nouns Nouns derived from members of other word classes Adjectives derived from adjectives Adjectives derived from members of other word classes Verbs derived from verbs Verbs derived from members of other word classes Conclusion: generality and idiosyncrasy Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading Compound words, blends and phrasal words Compounds versus phrases Compound verbs Compound adjectives Compound nouns Headed and headless compounds Blends and acronyms Compounds containing bound combining forms Phrasal words Conclusion Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading A word and its structure Meaning and structure Affixes as heads More elaborate word forms: multiple affixation More elaborate word forms: compounds within compounds Apparent mismatches between meaning and structure Conclusion: structure as guide but not straitjacket Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading 9] -- Productivity Introduction: kinds of productivity Productivity in shape: formal generality and regularity Productivity in meaning: semantic regularity Semantic blocking Productivity in compounding Measuring productivity: the significance of neologisms Conclusion: 'productivity' in syntax Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading The historical sources of English word formation Introduction Germanic, Romance and Greek vocabulary The rarity of borrowed inflectional morphology The reduction in inflectional morphology Characteristics of Germanic and non-Germanic derivation Fashions in morphology Conclusion: history and structure Technical terms Exercises Recommendations for reading Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally A puzzle: disentangling lexemes, word forms and lexical items Lexemes and lexical items: possible reasons for their overlap in English Lexemes and lexical items: the situation outside English Lexemes and word forms: the situation outside English Recommendations for reading
Physical Description:
viii, 154 pages : illustrations ;
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Publication Date:
[2018]
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