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| Genre/Form: | Problems, exercises, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert P Stockwell; Donka Minkova |
| ISBN: | 0521790123 9780521790123 0521793629 9780521793629 |
| OCLC Number: | 45330283 |
| Description: | xi, 208 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | An introduction to the textbook -- Word origins -- The background of English -- Composition of the early modern and modern English vocabulary -- Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes -- Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation -- Replacement rules -- Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy -- Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates, and other etymological pitfalls -- Semantic change and semantic guesswork -- The pronunciation of classical words in English -- Appendix I. An introduction to dictionaries -- Appendix II. Master root list. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova. |
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