English Words
A Linguistic Introduction
The Language Library
1. Edition April 2006
320 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-23031-1
John Wiley & Sons
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
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 of
structure.
8. Children learning words.
9. Accidents of history: English in flux.
List of Works Consulted.
Glossary.
Index.
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 of
structure.
8. Children learning words.
9. Accidents of history: English in flux.
List of Works Consulted.
Glossary.
Index.
"A very special book that captures, at an introductory level,
the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history
and structure of English."
Will Leben, Stanford University
the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history
and structure of English."
Will Leben, Stanford University
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.
