1. Words, sentences and dictionaries Words as meaningful building-blocks of language – Words as types and words as tokens – Words with predictable meanings – Non-words with unpredictable meanings – Conclusion: words versus lexical items 2. A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes Taking words apart – Kinds of morpheme: bound versus free – Kinds of morpheme: root, affix, combining form – Morphemes and their allomorphs – Identifying morphemes independently of meaning – Conclusion: ways of classifying word-parts 3. A word and its forms: inflection Words and grammar: lexemes, word forms and grammatical words – Regular and irregular inflection – Forms of nouns – Forms of pronouns and determiners – Forms of verbs – Forms of adjectives – Conclusion and summary 4. A word and its relatives: derivation Relationships between lexemes – Word classes and conversion – Adverbs derived from adjectives – Nouns derived from nouns – Nouns derived from members of other word classes – Adjectives derived from adjectives – Adjectives derived from members of other word classes – Verbs derived from verbs – Verbs derived from member of other word classes – Conclusion: generality and idiosyncrasy 5. Compound words, blends and phrasal words Compounds versus phrases – Compound verbs – Compound adjectives – Compound nouns – Headed and headless compounds – Blends and acronyms – Compounds containing bound combining forms – Phrasal words 6. A word and its structure Meaning and structure – Affixes as heads – More elaborate word forms: multiple affixation – More elaborate word forms: compounds within compounds Apparent mismatches between meaning and structure 7. Productivity Introduction: kinds of productivity – Productivity in shape: formal generality and regularity – Productivity in meaning: semantic regularity – Semantic blocking – Productivity in compounding – Measuring productivity: the significance of neologisms – Conclusion: ‗productivity‘ in syntax 8. The historical sources of English word formation Introduction – Germanic, Romance and Greek vocabulary – The rarity of borrowed inflectional morphology – The reduction in inflectional morphology – Characteristics of Germanic and non-Germanic derivation – Fashions in morphology – Conclusion: history and structure.