English Words

07Discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. This new edition covers the recent trend of blending and shortening associated with texting and other forms of electronic communication, and discusses types of allomorphy and Grimm's law. An online workbook contains extra readings and exercises.041. Lexical heritage 2. The background of English 3. The early modern English cultural scene 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.