Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Words, sentences and dictionaries 4
6. 3 A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 16
7. 4 A word and its forms: inflection 30
8. 5 A word and its relatives: derivation 49
9. 6 Compound words, blends and phrasal words 65
10. 7 A word and its structure 78
11. 8 Productivity 92
12. 9 The historical sources of English word formation 108
13. 10 Conclusion: words in English and in languages generally 122
14. Discussion of the exercises 128
15. References 149
16. Index 152