Provides readers with description and explanation of key areas of English Language study. This title presuppose a basic working knowledge of the topic and explore aspects of the linguistics of English for an intermediate or advanced student readership.[...]
This introduction to English inflectional and derivational morphology shows how language change is more systematic if looked at from a long-range perspective than short-term changes might suggest. The author makes such long-range developments visible and shows how the interaction between phonology a[...]