English words
Subtitle: a linguistic introduction
By: Heidi Harley.
Series: The language library
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780631230311; 9780631230328
Subjects: English language -- Word formation.; English language -- Morphology.; English language -- Phonology.; English language -- Semantics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a word?; title: Sound and fury : English phonology; title: Phonological words : calling all scrabble players!; title: Where do words come from?; title: Pre- and suf-fix-es : Engl-ish morph-o-log-y; title: Morphological idiosyncrasies; title: Lexical semantics : the structure of meaning, the meaning of structure; title: Children learning words; title: Accidents of history : English in flux.