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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The two general themes of this book are the historical origins and the structure of English words. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affix homophony, labial assimilation, clitic group, allomorphic variation, citation files, etymological information, classical words, voicing assimilation, root morphemes, stress placement, desk dictionary, phonetic sequences, core vocabulary, daughter languages, bound roots, desk dictionaries, learned vocabulary, specialized dictionaries, morpheme boundaries, total assimilation, replacement rules, word stock, borrowed words, phonetic change Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Early Modern English, Middle English, Random House, American English, New York, Norman Conquest, New World, Oxford English Dictionary, North Germanic, Old French, Merriam Company, Middle Ages, British Isles, High German, United States, American Indian, British English, Chronological English Dictionary, Indo-European Roots, Norman French, Old Norse, Oxford University Press, Roman Empire, Samuel Johnson New!
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The two general themes of this book are the historical origins and the structure of English words. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affix homophony, labial assimilation, clitic group, allomorphic variation, citation files, etymological information, classical words, voicing assimilation, root morphemes, stress placement, desk dictionary, phonetic sequences, core vocabulary, daughter languages, bound roots, desk dictionaries, learned vocabulary, specialized dictionaries, morpheme boundaries, total assimilation, replacement rules, word stock, borrowed words, phonetic change Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Early Modern English, Middle English, Random House, American English, New York, Norman Conquest, New World, Oxford English Dictionary, North Germanic, Old French, Merriam Company, Middle Ages, British Isles, High German, United States, American Indian, British English, Chronological English Dictionary, Indo-European Roots, Norman French, Old Norse, Oxford University Press, Roman Empire, Samuel Johnson New!
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- History of the English Language, A (5th Edition) by Albert C. Baugh on 6 pages
- Early Modern English by Charles Barber on page 40, page 44, and page 45
- The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by C.T. Onions on page 78, and page 182
- Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography by Sidney I. Landau on page 178, and page 183
- The American Heritage Dictionary: Fourth Edition (21st Century Reference) by Houghton Mifflin Company on page 185
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- Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language by Keith Allan in Back Matter
- Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour by Mark Wilson on page 43
- The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book by Charles W. Kreidler in Back Matter
- The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book by Charles W. Kreidler in Back Matter
- Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language by Kate Burridge in Back Matter
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