A lively and hands-on introduction, this text is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics.

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, where she teaches a wide range of courses on theoretical linguistics and the English language. She is the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award (1990), the Lindberg Award for the Outstanding Teacher and Scholar in Liberal Arts at UNH (2013), and the Bloomfield Award given by the Linguistic Society of America for the Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (with Laurie Bauer and Ingo Plag, 2015). She is the author of four monographs, over fifty articles, and book chapters on morphology and related topics, and is the co-editor of three handbooks on morphology.

Preface; The International Phonetic Alphabet; Point and manner of articulation of English consonants and vowels; 1. What is morphology?; 2. Words, dictionaries, and the mental lexicon; 3. Lexeme formation: the familiar; 4. Productivity and creativity; 5. Lexeme formation: further afield; 6. Inflection; 7. Typology; 8. Words and sentences: the interface between morphology and syntax; 9. Sounds and shapes: the interface between morphology and phonology; 10. Theoretical challenges; 11. Theories of morphology; Glossary; References; Index.