Table of Contents

Part I - Introduction
1: Aims and Structures
2: Basic principles: terminology
3: Basic principles: methods
4: Orthography
Part II - Inflection
5: Verb inflection
6: Adjective and adverb inflection
7: Noun inflection
8: Function words: pronouns, determiners, wh-forms, deictics
Part III - Derivation
9: Derivation: phonological considerations
10: Derived nouns: event, state, result
11: Derived nouns: personal and participant
12: Derived nouns: quality, collective, and other abstracts
13: Derived verbs
14: Derived adjectives
15: Derived adverbs
16: Locatives of time and space
17: Negatives
18: Size, quantity, and attitude
Part IV Compounding
19: Compounds: formal considerations
20: Compounds: semantic considerations
Part V Interaction
21: Combination of affixes
22: Affixation on compounds and phrases
23: Paradigmatic processes
Part VI Themes
24: Inflection versus derivation
25: The analysis and limits of conversion
26: Blocking, competition, and productivity
27: The nature of stratification
28: English morphology in a typological perspective
29: English morphology and theories of morphology
References
Index of affixes and other formatives
Index of names
Index of subjects

About the Author

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. His books include English Word-formation (CUP 1983), Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd edn EUP 2003), Morphological Productivity (CUP 2001) and A Glossary of Morphology (EUP 2004). He is one of the editors of the journal Word Structure.
Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire and author of Deconstructing Morphology (Chicago 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP 2009). She is co-editor with Pavol Stekauer of the Oxford Handbooks of Compounding and Derivational Morphology (OUP 2009 and 2013).
Ingo Plag is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. His books include Morphological Productivity (Mouton de Gruyter 1999), Word-formation in English (CUP 2003), and Introduction of English Linguistics (with co-authors, Mouton de Gruyter 2009). He is co-editor of the journal Morphology.

Reviews

`This impressive volume will, for years to come, be an indispensable tool for researchers on English morphology.'
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Morphology
`The depth and the amount of research that has gone into this work are impressive. The care and thoroughness with which the authors present the corpus-based data are exemplary, and their decision to downplay theory while including copious helpful references to a wide number of synchronic approaches is commendable. This work will be of value to scholars of all sorts who study English, providing analytical bases for later work, data for classroom problems,
and rich material for browsing. It is also a fine example of international collaboration between leading morphologists from three continents.'
Bloomfield Award Citation, The Linguistic Society of America
`It will be unputdownable for a considerable time to anyone interested in 'words', how they yield to and defy morphological analysis, and how their incredible range of properties can be classified and commented upon by dyed-in-the-wool morphologists, employing 'modern' ways of data collecting.'
Wim Zonneveld, Journal of Linguistics