{"product_id":"english-words-a-linguistic-introduction-hardback-9780631230311","title":"English Words; A Linguistic Introduction (Hardback) 9780631230311","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnglish Words\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Linguistic Introduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeidi Harley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631230311, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 April 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A very special book that captures, at an introductory level, the variety of things linguists find fascinating about the history and structure of English.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWill Leben, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglish Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eaccessibly 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecovers basic introductory material and investigates the structure of English vocabulary\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eintroduces students to the technical study of words from relevant areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIPA Transcription Key.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. What is a word?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Explaining word in words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Language is a secret decoder ring.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Wordhood: the whole kit and caboodle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Two kinds of words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 The anatomy of a listeme.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 What don’t you have to learn when you’re learning a word?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 A scientific approach to language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Sound and fury: English phonology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 English spelling and English pronunciation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The voice box.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 The building blocks of words I: Consonants in the IPA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Building blocks II: Vowels and the IPA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Families of sounds and Grimm’s law: a case in point.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Phonological words: Calling all Scrabble players!.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Guessing at words: The Scrabble problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Building Blocks III: The Syllable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Phonotactic restrictions on English syllables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 From a stream of sound into words: Speech perception.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Syllables, rhythm, and stress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Using stress to parse the speech stream into words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Misparsing the speech stream, mondegreens and allophones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Allophony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 What we know about phonological words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Where do words come from?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Getting new listemes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 When do we have a new word?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 New words by ‘mistake’: back-formations and folk etymologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 New words by economizing: clippings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 \u003ci\u003eExtreme\u003c\/i\u003e economizing: acronyms and abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Building new words by putting listemes together: affixation and compounding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Compounding clips and mixing it up: Blends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 New listemes via meaning change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 But are these words really \u003ci\u003enew\u003c\/i\u003e?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Pre- and suf-fix-es: Engl-ish Morph-o-log-y.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Listemes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Making up words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Affixal syntax: Who’s my neighbor?, Part I.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Affixal phonology: Who’s my neighbor? Part II.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Allomorphy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Closed-class and open-class morphemes: Reprise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Morphological idiosyncrasies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Different listemes, same meaning! Irregular suffixes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Root irregulars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Linguistic paleontology: fossils of older forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Why some but not others?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 How do kids figure it out?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Representing complex suffixal restrictions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Keeping Irregulars: Semantic clues to morphological classes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Irregulars III: Suppletion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Keeping Irregulars: Producing words on the fly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10 Productivity, blocking and Bushisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Lexical semantics: The structure of meaning, the meaning of structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Function meaning vs. Content meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Entailment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Function words and their meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Content words and their meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Relationships and Argument Structure: Meaning and grammar.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Argument Structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Derivational morphology and argument structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Subtleties of argument structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9 Function vs. content meanings: the showdown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10 How do we \u003ci\u003elearn\u003c\/i\u003e all that?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Children learning words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 How do children learn the meanings of words?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Learning words for middle-sized observables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 When the basics fail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Morphological and syntactic clues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Learning words for non-observables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Syntactic frames, theta roles and event structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Agent-Patient Protoroles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8 Functional listemes interacting with content listemes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.9 Simple co-occurrence? Or actual composition?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.10 Yes, but where do the words come from in the first place?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Accidents of history: English in flux.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Linguistic change, and lots of it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Layers of vocabulary and accidents of history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 A brief history of England, as relevant to the English vocabulary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 55 B.C. to 600 A.D. : How the English came to England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 600-900 A.D. The English and the Vikings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 1066-1200: Norman Rule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 1200-1450: Anglicization of the Normans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8 1450-1600 The English Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9 1600 -1750: Restoration, Expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.10 1750-modern day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.11 The rise of prescriptivism: How to really speak good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.12 English orthography: The Roman alphabet, the quill pen, the printing press and the Great Vowel Shift.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.13 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Works Consulted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWords Consulted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Language: reference \u0026amp; general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Language: reference \u0026amp; general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Language:%20reference%20\u0026amp;%20general%20%5BCB%5D%22\"\u003eCB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406406250776,"sku":"9780631230311","price":90.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631230311.jpg?v=1784137784","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/english-words-a-linguistic-introduction-hardback-9780631230311","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}