ENGLISH WORD FORMATION PROCESSES IN GENERATIVE MORPHOLOGY

This paper is concerned with English word formation processes in generative morphology study. In other words, this paper deals with the issue of English word formation in the study of generative morphology. Morphology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study and analysis of internal structure, forms and classes of words in a language. Crystal (1989:90) states that morphology is the branch of linguistics studying the structure of words. Morphology is also called the study of morphemes and their different forms (allomorphs) and the way they combine in word formation. Bauer (1983:33) morphology, an area of linguistics dealing with the internal structure of words forms.