Etymology has been largely neglected since the beginning of this century. Professor Yakov Malkiel here sets out to rescue it from its fate. He enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the last two centuries, and sets them against the practice of etymology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He also examines the complex and changing interrelationship between etymology and general linguistics in recent times, with the intention of revitalising etymological research. Professor Malkiel is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished practitioners of the discipline, and brings to this work a remarkable breadth and depth of scholarship. Wide-ranging and imaginative, Etymology will be welcomed by all historical linguists and Romance linguists.
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"...Malkiel has important and refreshingly unpolemical things to say about the rise and decline of trends in scholarship and about the intrinsic worth of etymological research." Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies
"The writing of a broad synthesis of the etymological discipline could hardly have been entrusted to a more prominent philologist and linguist than Yakov Malkiel....Malkiel's book is destined to become a vade mecum of the etymological trade for years to come because of its exhaustive scope, its cogent analysis of past scholarship, its intelligent assessment of the current crises and the hope it holds out for a future resurgence." Frede Jensen, English Language Notes
"The writing of a broad synthesis of the etymological discipline could hardly have been entrusted to a more prominent philologist and linguist than Yakov Malkiel....Malkiel's book is destined to become a vade mecum of the etymological trade for years to come because of its exhaustive scope, its cogent analysis of past scholarship, its intelligent assessment of the current crises and the hope it holds out for a future resurgence." Frede Jensen, English Language Notes
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This historical survey enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the past two centuries, and contrasts them with the practice of etymology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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In different times and at different places, etymology has meant slightly or entirely different things to the few or many people who, under varying sets of circumstances, have used that word, applying it to their own spheres of interests. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
etymological probing, etymological issues, etymological curiosity, etymological inquiry, etymological conjectures, etymological inquiries, diachronic phonology, dialect geographers, dialect geography, etymological research, etymological notes, word biographies, historical grammar, etymological dictionary, lingua italiana, daughter languages, etymological analysis, lexical units, word origins, etymological dictionaries, sound correspondences, lengua castellana, sound shifts, editorial space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old French, Old Spanish, Walther von Wartburg, Central Europe, Jakob Jud, Antoine Thomas, Ernst Gamillscheg, Middle Ages, New World, United States, Juan Corominas, Leo Spitzer, Classical Latin, Hermann Paul, World War, Albert Dauzat, Friedrich Diez, Friedrich Kluge, Hugo Schuchardt, Max Pfister, New York, Old English, Romance Philology, Romanische Etymologien, Edward Sapir New!
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In different times and at different places, etymology has meant slightly or entirely different things to the few or many people who, under varying sets of circumstances, have used that word, applying it to their own spheres of interests. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
etymological probing, etymological issues, etymological curiosity, etymological inquiry, etymological conjectures, etymological inquiries, diachronic phonology, dialect geographers, dialect geography, etymological research, etymological notes, word biographies, historical grammar, etymological dictionary, lingua italiana, daughter languages, etymological analysis, lexical units, word origins, etymological dictionaries, sound correspondences, lengua castellana, sound shifts, editorial space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old French, Old Spanish, Walther von Wartburg, Central Europe, Jakob Jud, Antoine Thomas, Ernst Gamillscheg, Middle Ages, New World, United States, Juan Corominas, Leo Spitzer, Classical Latin, Hermann Paul, World War, Albert Dauzat, Friedrich Diez, Friedrich Kluge, Hugo Schuchardt, Max Pfister, New York, Old English, Romance Philology, Romanische Etymologien, Edward Sapir New!
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- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 3
- Journal of English Linguistics ("Bidnii Mongolchuud") by Robert A. Peters in Back Matter
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