The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology

Synopsis of The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology

This book is 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. The 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. An overview of morphological operations is provided, such as affixation, compounding, reduplication, and various types of phonological operation. The morphological structure of words determines their phonological, syntactic, and semantic properties. The acquisition of morphological knowledge and the way in which complex words are processed is examined, giving an idea of how lexical knowledge is structured and how it is stored in memory.