English Words - History and Structure

Informationen zum Autor Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Donka Minkova is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext A new edition of this textbook discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. Zusammenfassung Discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. This new edition covers the recent trend of blending and shortening associated with texting and other forms of electronic communication! and discusses types of allomorphy and Grimm's law. An online workbook contains extra readings and exercises. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Lexical heritage; 2. The background of English; 3. The early modern English cultural scene; 4. Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes; 5. Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation; 6. Replacement rules; 7. Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy; 8. Fossilized allomorphy. False cognates and other etymological pitfalls; 9. Semantic relations and semantic change; 10. The pronunciation of classical words in English.

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• Authors: Donka Minkova, Donka (Professor Minkova, Robert Stockwell, Robert (University of California Stockwell, Robert P. Stockwell, Robert P. Minkova Stockwell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521882583
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88258-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics