基本説明
This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. EVE helps develop familitarity with over 350 Latin and Greek word elemetns in English, and shows how these roots are the building blocks in thousands of different words.
Full Description
This 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.
Contents
Preface
1.: The Wealth of English
2.: History of English and Sources of English Vocabulary
3.: Morphology: Analyzing Complete Works
4.: Allomorphy
5.: Phonetics
6.: Regular Allomorphy: Numeric Elements
7.: Polysemy and Semantic Change
8.: Usage and Variation
9.: Latin and Greek Morphology
10.: Prehistory of English and the Other Indo-European Languages
11.: Later Changes from Latin to French to English
Appendix I: Elements to Glosses
Appendix II: Glosses to Elements
Glossary
Further Reading and Research Tools
Index
