English Vocabulary Elements
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...
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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.
Pronunciation Guide1Introduction: The Wealth of English32History of English and Sources of English Vocabulary153Morphology: Analyzing Complex Words294Allomorphy475Phonetics566Regular Allomorphy; Numerals and Number Words737Polysemy and Semantic Change918Usage and Variation1109Latin and Greek Morphology12110Prehistory of English and the Other Indo-European Languages13611Latin Words, Phrases, and Abbreviations in English14812Later Changes: From Latin to French to English159Appendix I, Part 1: Morphemes to Glosses173Appendix I, Part 2: Glosses to Morphemes197Appendix II: Morpheme Sets 1 to 9217Further Reading and Research Tools235Index241
