The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

by Ingo Plag, Rochelle Lieber, Laurie Bauer

Book Overview

This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the theoretical challenges these phenomena present. It is the first to make systematic use of large linguistic corpora, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the British National Corpus, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199579261
• ISBN13: 9780199579266
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 702 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.9" x 9.8"