The Origins of English Words

A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6784-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 993 g

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.

Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shipley, Joseph Twadell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frequent Word Forms and Transformations
Notes on Usage
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Indo-European roots
Index of English Words

Über Autor(innen)

Shipley, Joseph Twadell
Joseph Twadell Shipley is the author of the highly acclaimed In Praise of English as well as twenty-six other books, including The Quest for Literature, Dictionary of Word Origins, and Dictionary of Early English. In a long and distinguished career he was president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, was a founder of Yeshiva College, and taught at the City College of New York.