Introduction to Phonology of English Prefixes

This paper is an attempt to circumscribe the set of English prefixes. The coverage of the lexicon is intended to be as complete as possible; i.e. the author's goal is to write a grammar of prefixes with extensive coverage both of phenomena and of words. The type of grammar which is being built should relate sound and meaning under superficially varied conditions. In particular, although distinctions are made in the lexicon in terms of Greek, Germanic and Latin (or French) types of words, the rules should be general. A number of morphophonologi-cal derivations of prefixed words are given which illustrate the approach.