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Harley, Heidi.

English words : a linguistic introduction / Heidi Harley. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. - xvii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The language library .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 290) and index.

What is a word? -- Sound and fury : English phonology -- Phonological words : calling all scrabble players! -- Where do words come from? -- Pre- and suf-fix-es : Engl-ish morph-o-log-y -- Morphological idiosyncrasies -- Lexical semantics : the structure of meaning, the meaning of structure -- Children learning words -- Accidents of history : English in flux.

0631230319 (alk. paper) 0631230327 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780631230311 9780631230328

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012270574 Uk


English language--Word formation.
English language--Morphology.
English language--Phonology.
English language--Semantics.

PE1175 / .H43 2006

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