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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"The volume's lucid structure and Ringe's gift for making complex materials comprehensible will ensure that this volume will serve its diverse target readership well for many years.--Christine Rauer, University of St Andrews ""NOWELE"""

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Don Ringe, Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

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