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English words : history and structure

Author: Robert P Stockwell; Donka Minkova
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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