Heidi Harley

English Words (eBook, ePUB)

A Linguistic Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. * accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the foundation needed for more advanced study in linguistic theory or lexicology * covers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary * introduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119485674
• Artikelnr.: 54397129

Autorenporträt

Heidi Harley is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She specializes in lexical semantics and morphology, and has published in a wide variety of books and journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Language, and American Speech.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is a word?.

2. Sound and fury: English phonology.

3. Phonological words: Calling all Scrabble players!.

4. Where do words come from?.

5. Pre- and suf-fix-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y.

6. Morphological idiosyncrasies.

7. Lexical semantics: The structure of meaning, the meaning ofstructure.

8. Children learning words.

9. Accidents of history: English in flux.

List of Works Consulted.

Glossary.

Index.

Rezensionen

"A very special book that captures, at an introductory level,the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the historyand structure of English."
Will Leben, Stanford University