Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition and acknowledgements
- 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 relations and semantic change
- 10 The pronunciation of classical words in English
- Appendix: morpheme list
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition and acknowledgements
- 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 relations and semantic change
- 10 The pronunciation of classical words in English
- Appendix: morpheme list
- Index
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- English WordsHistory and Structure, pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009