Morphology in English

Covers derivational and compound word formation in English morphology in depth, using a cognitive linguistics semantic framework.

Zeki Hamawand is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kirkuk, Iraq. His previous publications include A temporal Complement Causes in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (2008), and The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes (2009).

Fundamentals \ Part I: Framework \ 1. Cognitive assumptions \ 2. Cognitive mechanisms \ 3. Cognitive operations \ Part II: Prefixation \ 4.Prefixal categories \ 5. Prefixal domains \ 6. Prefixal construals \ Part III: Suffixation \ 7. Suffixal categories \ 8. Suffixal domains \ 9. Suffixal construals \ Part IV: Compounding \ 10. Compound categories \ 11. Compounding domains \ 12. Compound construals \ Appendices \ Further Reading \ Glossary \ Answers to Exercises \ Indexes