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.