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Morphology: On the structure and formation of words

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Morphology is concerned with the internal structure of words and with the various processes which allow us to constantly expand the vocabulary of a language.

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Kortmann, B. (2020). Morphology: On the structure and formation of words. In: English Linguistics. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05678-8_3

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