English words : a linguistic introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harley, Heidi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006
Series:The language library
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What is a word?
  • Sound and fury : English phonology
  • Phonological words : calling all scrabble players!
  • Where do words come from?
  • Pre- and suf-fix-es : Engl-ish morph-o-log-y
  • Morphological idiosyncrasies
  • Lexical semantics : the structure of meaning, the meaning of structure
  • Children learning words
  • Accidents of history : English in flux