English Words: History and Structure
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An introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment.
An introduction to the textbook1Ch. 1Word origins3Ch. 2The background of English19Ch. 3Composition of the Early Modern and Modern English vocabulary39Ch. 4Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes56Ch. 5Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation73Ch. 6Replacement rules95Ch. 7Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy112Ch. 8Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates and other etymological pitfalls128Ch. 9Semantic change and semantic guesswork147Ch. 10The pronunciation of classical words in English163App. I: An introduction to dictionaries177App. II: Morpheme list193Index205
