1. Learning English morphology 1.1 Word building 1.2 The scope of the task 1.3 The importance of morphological knowledge 1.4 What learners need to know 1.5 How to develop morphological knowledge 1.6 How to give deliberate attention to word parts 1.
7 Testing knowledge about morphology 1.8 Applying the knowledge found in this book 2 Assumptions 3 Sound and spelling 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Sounds 3.3 Spelling rules 3.4 Sound rules 4 Plural of nouns 4.1 The regular case 4.2 Umlaut plurals 4.
3 Plurals with voicing of the last base consonant sound 4.4 N-plurals 4.5 Regular plurals of nouns ending in 4.6 Unmarked plurals 4.7 Foreign plurals 4.8 Plurals with an apostrophe 4.9 Problems with plurals 4.10 Words with only plural form 5 Possessives 5.
1 Introductory remarks 5.2 Possessives on pronouns 5.3 Possessives on nouns 6 Comparative and superlative 6.1 Introductory comments 6.2 Adjectives 6.3 Adverbs 7 Third person singular - s 7.1 Irregular forms 7.2 The regular case 8 The - ing form of the verb 9 Past tense and past participle 9.
1 Introduction 9.2 The regular verbs 9.3 Irregular verbs 10 Numbers 10.1 The basic numbers 10.2 13-19 10.3 20-90 10.4 Ordinal numbers 10.5 Distributive numbers 10.
6 Oddities 11 Compounds 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Verbal nexus compounds 11.3 Endocentric compounds 11.4 Other types of compound 12 Making nouns 12.1 Nouns from other nouns 12.2 Nouns from verbs 12.3 Suffixes associated with people 12.
4 Suffixes primarily denoting events 12.5 Nouns from adjectives 13 Making verbs 13.1 Making verbs with suffixes 13.2 Making verbs with prefixes 14 Making adjectives 14.1 Adjectives from nouns 14.2 Adjectives from verbs 14.3 Adjectives from other adjectives 15 Making adverbs 15.1 Introduction 15.
2 The suffix - ly 15.3 Other suffixes 16 Making words with prefixes 16.1 Negation 16.2 Location 16.3 Size 16.4 Numbers 17 Making words without affixes 17.1 Relationships between words of the same form 17.2 Relationships between words with related but different form 18 Learned word-formation 18.
1 Greek compounds 18.2 Latin verbs 19 Morphology and frequency.