AuthorMinkova, Donka, 1944-
TitleEnglish words : history and structure / Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Edition 2nd ed
Descript xiv, 219 p. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Word-origins -- The bacjground of English -- Composition of early modern and modern English vacabulary -- Smaller than words: morhemes and types of morhemes -- Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation -- Replacement rules -- Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy -- Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates and other etymological pitfalls -- Semantic relations and semantic change -- The pronunciation of classical words in English


SUBJECT

  1. English language -- Etymology
  2. English language -- Morphology
  3. English language -- Word formation
  4. Vocabulary

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