Overview
Charting the major developments in the morphology of English, this book introduces students to English inflectional and derivational morphology, presenting them with a long-range perspective of language change. The book is also built around the chronological periods crucial for each type of important large-scale change in the morphology of English, moving from Old, Middle and Early Modern English, to Modern English. The book also explores four sources of linguistic innovation - learner errors in categorical inflectional systems, lexical analogy, productivity in derivational systems and language and dialect contact - illustrating the extent to which the history of English Morphology offers significant information about morphological change in general.
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- ISBN-13: 9781474459778
- ISBN-10: 1474459773
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: September 2021
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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