Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; An introduction to the textbook; 1 Word origins; 2 The background of English; 3 Composition of the Early Modern and Modern English vocabulary; 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 change and semantic guesswork; 10 The pronunciation of classical words in English; Appendix I: an introduction to dictionaries.
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This book introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Exercises to accompany each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English are available online.
English words.
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English language-- Etymology.
English language-- Morphology.
English language-- Word formation.
Vocabulary, Problems, exercises, etc.
Anglais (Langue)-- Étymologie.
Anglais (Langue)-- Formation des mots.
Anglais (Langue)-- Morphologie.
Anglais (Langue)-- Vocabulaire-- Problèmes et exercices.
Anglais (Langue)
Engels.
English language-- Etymology.
English language-- Etymology.
English language-- Morphology.
English language-- Morphology.
English language-- Word formation.
English language-- Word formation.
Etymologie
Étymologie.
Formation des mots.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Etymology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.