1st Edition
English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession
1. Learning English morphology
1.1 Word building
1.2 The scope of the task
1.3 The importance of morphological knowledge
1.4 What learners need to know
1.5 How to develop morphological knowledge
1.6 How to give deliberate attention to word parts
1.7 Testing knowledge about morphology
1.8 Applying the knowledge found in this book
2 Assumptions
3 Sound and spelling
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sounds
3.3 Spelling rules
3.4 Sound rules
4 Plural of nouns
4.1 The regular case
4.2 Umlaut plurals
4.3 Plurals with voicing of the last base consonant sound
4.4 N-plurals
4.5 Regular plurals of nouns ending in <o>
4.6 Unmarked plurals
4.7 Foreign plurals
4.8 Plurals with an apostrophe
4.9 Problems with plurals
4.10 Words with only plural form
5 Possessives
5.1 Introductory remarks
5.2 Possessives on pronouns
5.3 Possessives on nouns
6 Comparative and superlative
6.1 Introductory comments
6.2 Adjectives
6.3 Adverbs
7 Third person singular -s
7.1 Irregular forms
7.2 The regular case
8 The -ing form of the verb
9 Past tense and past participle
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The regular verbs
9.3 Irregular verbs
10 Numbers
10.1 The basic numbers
10.2 13-19
10.3 20-90
10.4 Ordinal numbers
10.5 Distributive numbers
10.6 Oddities
11 Compounds
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Verbal nexus compounds
11.3 Endocentric compounds
11.4 Other types of compound
12 Making nouns
12.1 Nouns from other nouns
12.2 Nouns from verbs
12.3 Suffixes associated with people
12.4 Suffixes primarily denoting events
12.5 Nouns from adjectives
13 Making verbs
13.1 Making verbs with suffixes
13.2 Making verbs with prefixes
14 Making adjectives
14.1 Adjectives from nouns
14.2 Adjectives from verbs
14.3 Adjectives from other adjectives
15 Making adverbs
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The suffix -ly
15.3 Other suffixes
16 Making words with prefixes
16.1 Negation
16.2 Location
16.3 Size
16.4 Numbers
17 Making words without affixes
17.1 Relationships between words of the same form
17.2 Relationships between words with related but different form
18 Learned word-formation
18.1 Greek compounds
18.2 Latin verbs
19 Morphology and frequency
Biography
Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
I.S.P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
