A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§4.2 The 3rd person singular present tense^273 [12] When the 0 follows a consonant symbol, we typically get ·es: go·es hero·es p ...

274 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes of the base (it rhymes with buzz, not booze). The same applies to says (as we noted ...

§4.3 The preterite and past participle^275 Type B. Base-final d replaced by t Similar to Type A are those where the preterite is ...

276 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes Grow, see and sew end in complex vowel symbols, and ·n is added directly to them. ...

§5.1 Plural fonnation 277 Type F. Miscellaneous There are a few verbs which don't fit into any of the above patterns. Withfty, t ...

278 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes In speech the noun house undergoes a similar modification, and so do some nouns end ...

§5.2 Genitive formation 279 With some of these nouns the foreign plural is much more common than the sin­ gular, and for some sp ...

280 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes (b) The 's genitive In writing, the 's genitive is invariably formed by adding's to ...

§ 7.1 The structure of words^281 Inflectional and non-inflectional marking of grade The comparative and superlative categories d ...

282 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes Bases and affixes The two main kinds of morphological unit are bases and affixes. O ...

§7.2 Morphological operations 283 added to luck, and un· to lucky). Structural diagrams for the four examples are shown in [31]: ...

284 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes psychology, etc. Such 'neo-classical' compounds figure very prominently in the lear ...

§7.2 Morphological operations^285 1Il ADJECTIVE TO NOUN iv ADJECTIVE TO VERB V VERB TO ADJECTIVE She 's very professionalADJ' Th ...

286 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes The verb self-destruct is a clear example. It was formed from the noun self­ destru ...

§7.3 Productivity and lexicalisation 287 In breathalyser the beginning of the second base (the an of analyser) is lost; in parat ...

288 Chapter 16 Morphology: words and lexemes Productive affixes have different degrees of productivity - they have differing ran ...

Exercises 1. Explain why ·ing is an inflectional suffix in [i] but a lexical one in [ii]: They're buildiIlg more town houses at ...

290 Chapter 1 6 Morphology: words and lexemes For each word in the sentence Our children said those earlier stories had been he ...

Further reading In this short book we do not even try to incorporate all the bibliographical refer­ ences that would be appropri ...

292 Further reading usage. But usage manuals should in general be treated with caution, because many of the best-known ones are ...