English Language: 3. Morphology.

The section provides an overview of works covering English language morphology. An Introduction to English Morphology, by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, has chapters on words, inflection derivation the history of English word formation and words in languages in general. Among general morphological issues, the extent to which morphology mirrors syntax has continued to occupy several minds. Joseph Edmonds sees A Common Basis for Syntax and Morphology: Tri-Level Lexical Insertion. He points out that the Right Hand Head Rule of morphology is also encountered in many syntactic phrases, and goes on to suggest that the heads of words are also heads of phrases. Also, Laurie Bauer, in Why Are We Linguists and Not Linguisticians? tries to trace the semantic and pragmatic factors that have governed the fortunes of the -ician suffix.