English Words: History and Structure - Hardcover

Stockwell, Robert; Minkova, Donka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521790123 ISBN 13: 9780521790123

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It is both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Designed to deepen and strengthen the knowledge acquired in the classroom, exercises to accompany each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English are available online at http://uk.cambridge.org/linguistics/resources/englishwor ds.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Stockwell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Review:

'... read this book and recommend it to your sceptical colleagues ... it will certainly enhance the language awareness of already proficient English speakers ... attention to the history of words can illuminate the complex relationships between meaning, spelling and pronunciation in English, and can reveal the English lexicon as much more systematic than it appears.' ATEFL Issues

Stockwell and Minkova cover a large amount of material in this work. Yet despite the abundance of sophisticated linguistic terminology, it is in fact a book which is very easy to understand. Anyone studying the history of the English language ... will benefit from it.' fun-with-words.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521790123
• ISBN 13: 9780521790123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220