English Words: A Linguistic Introduction
English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective.\ \ accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology\ covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary\ introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of...
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English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics
1What is a word?12Sound and fury : English phonology213Phonological words : calling all Scrabble players!544Where do words come from?905Pre- and suf-fix-es : Engl-ish morph-o-log-y1116Morphological idiosyncrasies1447Lexical semantics : the structure of meaning, the meaning of structure1858Children learning words2189Accidents of history : English in flux239
\ From the Publisher“A very special book that captures, at an introductory level, the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history and structure of English.”\ Will Leben, Stanford University\ \ \
