The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology

by Geert Booij

Book Overview

This text provides an up-to-date introduction to the morphological analysis of words. Morphology deals with the internal structure of words and how this structure affects their phonological, syntactic and semantic properties. This book covers both inflection (the different forms of a word), and word formation, the ways in which new words can be added to the vocabulary of a language.

The enormous variety of morphological operations that we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199258473
• ISBN13: 9780199258475
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 6.7"