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

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

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

Written for students without knowledge of linguistics and unfamiliar with "traditional" grammar, this text concentrates on providing a much needed foundation in

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.