Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure - Brossura

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 0748613269 ISBN 13: 9780748613267

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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 explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English. He explains the various ways in which words are related to one another, and shows how the history of the English language has affected word structure.Topics include: words, sentences and dictionaries; a word and its parts (roots and affixes); a word and its forms (inflection); a word and its relatives (derivation); compound words; word structure; productivity; and the historical sources of English word formation.

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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is Tutor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is a professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand where he teaches linguistics. He studied at Oxford, MIT, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he gained his PhD. His previous books are Allomorphy in Inflexion, Current Morphology and The Origins of Complex Language.

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is Tutor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748613269
• ISBN 13: 9780748613267
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 151
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile