Abstract
Abstract The topic of this book is the formation of morphologically complex words. That is, it deals with the mechanisms of grammar that may cause two or more of the minimal meaningful elements of language-the morphemes-to be combined into one single word. The claim that will be developed in much more detail in the following chapters is that word formation is mainly a matter of syntax. That is, the basic building blocks of syntax are individual morphemes, not words, and it is the syntax that determines the order of morphemes within each complex word, in very much the same way as it determines the order of words in phrases and sentences.
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