INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY 5
1.1 A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 5
1.2 Classification of word-building means 13
1.3 The morphological structure of a word. Morphemes. Types of Morphemes. Allomorphs 17
CHAPTER II THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND WORD-BUILDING MEANS IN ENGLISH 22
2.1 The valency of affixes and stems. Word-building patterns and their meaning 22
2.2 Word-building Peculiarities of Linguistic Contamination 28
CONCLUSION 37
BIBLIOGRAPHY 39