August 2014 Academic & Specialist Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English Jan Don

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English
Jan Don


This introduction to morphology offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics an accessible entry point to the primary literature in the field of morphology.  It focuses on generative theories of morphology and prepares students for further reading and research in the subject. Topics covered include derivation versus inflection, lexical versus syntactic models of morphology, synthetic compounds and storage versus computation.