English Vocabulary ElementsThis unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. English Vocabulary Elements (EVE) helps develop familiarity with over 350 Latin and Greek word elements in English, and shows how these roots are the building blocks within thousands of different words. Along the way the authors introduce and illustrate many of the fundamental concepts of linguistics. Offering a thorough approach to the expansion of vocabulary, EVE is an invaluable resource that provides students a deeper understanding of the language. This book will be useful to upper level high school students, undergraduates in English, Linguistics, and Classics departments, ESL students, and anyone interested in building vocabulary skills. This edition is refined and thoroughly updated. It includes updated cultural references, and the authors have revised and improved the pedagogy based on classroom experience. In particular they account for variations in pronunciation among students; clarify when historical details are important or peripheral; and improve the many examples and exercises that form the core of the book. |
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Table des matières
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| 95 | |
Regular Allomorphy Numeric Elements | 113 |
Polysemy and Semantic Change | 137 |
Usage and Variation | 157 |
The Prehistory of English and the Other IndoEuropean Languages | 189 |
Later Changes From Latin to French to English | 207 |
Elements to Glosses | 221 |
Glosses to Elements | 249 |
Glossary | 277 |
Further Reading and Research Tools | 299 |
Index | 305 |
Latin and Greek Morphology | 173 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
ablaut acronym adjective affix allomorphs alveolar ancestor basic called classical Latin compound consonant Deletion derivational dictionary Element Chapter Source Element Gloss Chapter Element Gloss Source English vocabulary English words etymology following words fricative function G G G G Gloss G L G Germanic languages Gloss Chapter Source Gloss Element Chapter Gloss Source Examples Greek hypernym Indo-European languages laryngeal Latin and Greek Latin words learned letters lexeme lexical linguistic literally manner of articulation meaning metaphor metonymy Middle English Modern English morph morpheme morphological component nasal native Norse noun obstruents Old English oral stops original palate parse perfect participle phonetic place of articulation polysemy prefix pronounced pronunciation Proto-Indo-European refer root semantic change singular sound changes speak speech spelling stem suffix syllabic consonants syllable symbols tense thing tion tongue variation velar verb voiced voiceless Vowel Shift West Germanic languages word’s
