Prefcace by Halliday
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Principal references
1 What is morphology?
The scope of morphology
Morphology and general linguistic theory
2 Word,word-form and lexeme
Practical illustrations
Lexical and inflectional morphology
3 Inflections and word-formation
Why the distinction?
Change and indeterminacy
4 Lexical derivation
Formations
Productivity
5 Compounds
The syntax of compounds
Compounds and non-compounds
6 Morphemes and allomorphs
An agglutinating system
Types of alternation
7 Morphological processes
Inflectional formations
Types of morphological process
8 Morphophonemics
Sandhi
The scope of morphophonemics
9 Properties and their exponents
Flection
Types of exponence
10 Paradigms
An ancient model
A modern adaptation
11 Inflectional morphology and sytax
What are words?
Problems and discrepancies
12 Iconicity
Central and peripheral categories
Marked and unmarked
Index
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