English 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