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

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

The experience of having taught English language and morphology – syntax in particular – for more than seven years convinced the author that students of lin

The first comprehensive description of English word formation covers inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and minor processes such as subtractive

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.