Each textbook provides a specific perspective on the discipline that it aims to introduce. Therefore, writing this book has not only been a challenge for me because of the didactic demands that each textbook imposes on its writer. It also forced me to rethink my own ideas on morphology in confrontation with those of others, and to come up with a consistent picture of what morphology is about. This perspective is summarized by the title of this book, The Grammar of Words, which gives the linguistic entity of the word a pivotal role in understanding morphology | The Grammar of Words Geert Booij OXFORD TEXTBOOKS IN LINGUISTICS OXFORD TEXTBOOKS IN LINGUISTICS Series editors Keith Brown Eve V. Clark April McMahon Jim Miller and Lesley Milroy The Grammar of Words Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics General editors Keith Brown University of Cambridge Eve V. Clark Stanford University April McMahon University of Sheffield Jim Miller University of Auckland Lesley Milroy University of Michigan This series provides lively and authoritative introductions to the approaches methods and theories associated with the main subfields of linguistics. Published The Grammar of Words An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology by Geert Booij A Practical Introduction to Phonetics Second edition by J. C. Catford Meaning in Language An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics Second edition by Alan Cruse Principles and Parameters An Introduction to Syntactic Theory by Peter W. Culicover Semantic Analysis A Practical Introduction by Cliff Goddard Cognitive Grammar An Introduction by John R. Taylor Linguistic Categorization Third edition by John R. Taylor In preparation Pragmatics by Yan .
