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.

The author has managed to make the material both clear and challenging; exercises and recommended reading for each chapter help to achieve this.

• 1. Introduction2. Words, sentences and dictionaries 3. A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 4. A word and its forms: inflection 5. A word and its relatives: derivation 6. Compound words, blends and phrasal words 7. A word and its structure 8. Productivity 9. The historical sources of English word formation 10. Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally Discussion of the exercises; Glossary; References

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.

The author has managed to make the material both clear and challenging; exercises and recommended reading for each chapter help to achieve this.

• 1. Introduction2. Words, sentences and dictionaries 3. A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 4. A word and its forms: inflection 5. A word and its relatives: derivation 6. Compound words, blends and phrasal words 7. A word and its structure 8. Productivity 9. The historical sources of English word formation 10. Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally Discussion of the exercises; Glossary; References

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.

The author has managed to make the material both clear and challenging; exercises and recommended reading for each chapter help to achieve this.

• 1. Introduction2. Words, sentences and dictionaries 3. A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 4. A word and its forms: inflection 5. A word and its relatives: derivation 6. Compound words, blends and phrasal words 7. A word and its structure 8. Productivity 9. The historical sources of English word formation 10. Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally Discussion of the exercises; Glossary; References