INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY 4
1.1 A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes 4
1.2 Classification of word-building means 9
1.3 The morphological structure of a word. Morphemes. Types of Morphemes. Allomorphs 13
CHAPTER II THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND WORD-BUILDING MEANS IN ENGLISH 15
2.1 The valency of affixes and stems. Word-building patterns and their meaning 15
2.2 Word-building Peculiarities of Linguistic Contamination 20
CONCLUSION 28
BIBLIOGRAPHY 30