附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; An introduction to the textbook; 1 Word origins; 2 The background of English; 3 Composition of the Early Modern and Modern English vocabulary; 4 Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes; 5 Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation; 6 Replacement rules; 7 Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy; 8 Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates and other etymological pitfalls; 9 Semantic change and semantic guesswork; 10 The pronunciation of classical words in English; Appendix I: an introduction to dictionaries.
摘要:This book introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Exercises to accompany each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English are available online.
