English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It is both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Designed to deepen and strengthen the knowledge acquired in the classroom, exercises to accompany each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English are available online at http://uk.cambridge.org/linguistics/resources/englishwor ds.
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'... read this book and recommend it to your sceptical colleagues ... it will certainly enhance the language awareness of already proficient English speakers ... attention to the history of words can illuminate the complex relationships between meaning, spelling and pronunciation in English, and can reveal the English lexicon as much more systematic than it appears.' ATEFL Issues
Stockwell and Minkova cover a large amount of material in this work. Yet despite the abundance of sophisticated linguistic terminology, it is in fact a book which is very easy to understand. Anyone studying the history of the English language ... will benefit from it.' fun-with-words.com
Stockwell and Minkova cover a large amount of material in this work. Yet despite the abundance of sophisticated linguistic terminology, it is in fact a book which is very easy to understand. Anyone studying the history of the English language ... will benefit from it.' fun-with-words.com
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English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It is both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Designed to deepen and strengthen the knowledge acquired in the classroom, exercises to accompany each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English are available online at http://uk.cambridge.org/linguistics/resources/englishwor ds.
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This book analyzed the english language and its words from historical, morphological, phonetic, and other perspectives. A great read for anyone with linguistic knowledge or an English buff. Not dense at all; explains linguistic technical terms for the beginner.
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etymological pitfalls, labial assimilation, penult vowel, etymological composition, rules and other kinds, allomorphic variation, vocabulary enrichment, donor language, second morpheme, clitic group, borrowed vocabulary, voicing assimilation, classical words, phonetic sequences, vowel reduction, stress placement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, Present-Day English, Old French, Early Modern English, Early Modem English, American Heritage Dictionary, American English, New York, First Consonant Shift, Norman Conquest, British Isles, Syllable Syncopation, Chronological English Dictionary, Roman Empire, English Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Classical Latin, United States, Norman French, British English, Middle Ages, East Germanic, Scottish Gaelic, Grimm's Law Browse Sample Pages:
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etymological pitfalls, labial assimilation, penult vowel, etymological composition, rules and other kinds, allomorphic variation, vocabulary enrichment, donor language, second morpheme, clitic group, borrowed vocabulary, voicing assimilation, classical words, phonetic sequences, vowel reduction, stress placement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, Present-Day English, Old French, Early Modern English, Early Modem English, American Heritage Dictionary, American English, New York, First Consonant Shift, Norman Conquest, British Isles, Syllable Syncopation, Chronological English Dictionary, Roman Empire, English Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Classical Latin, United States, Norman French, British English, Middle Ages, East Germanic, Scottish Gaelic, Grimm's Law Browse Sample Pages:
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