Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as god be with you, that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for water of life, or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for testicle. But there are many words with orig...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jan-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517914127)
Three centuries of English idiomstheir unusual origins and unexpected interpretationsTo pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases ev...Daugiau...
Leonard Neidorf, Donka Minkova, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom Shippey, Aaron Ecay, Anatoly Liberman, Andy Orchard, Charles D Wright, Christopher M. Cain, Dennis Cronan...
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts. Robert D. Fulk is arguably the greatest Old English philologist to emerge during the twentieth century; his corpus of scholarship has fundamentally s...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9780816667727)
This volume foreshadows a larger forthcoming project, which will be a new multi-volume etymological dictionary of English, a project, the author explains in his introduction, which is rooted in his late-1980s obsession with the word heifer. Liberman...Daugiau...
Written in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of w...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2007, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9780816652723)
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Libermans comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to solve the mysteries of word origins...Daugiau...
A guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson explains how the origins and history of hundreds of words are determined, discussing such topics as folk etymology, changes of meaning in language history, borrowed words, and the meth...Daugiau...
N. S. Trubetzkoy, Anatoly Liberman, Marvin H. Taylor
Serija: Sound and Meaning: the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2001, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822322801)
Offers a view of the evolution of Trubetzkoys ideas on phonology, the logic in laws of linguistic geography and relative chronology, and the breadth of his involvement with Caucasian phonology and the Finno-Ugric languages. This volume sheds light...Daugiau...
N. S. Trubetzkoy, Anatoly Liberman, Marvin H. Taylor
Serija: Sound and Meaning: the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2001, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822322993)
Exploration of key aspects of linguistics through study of previously uncollected writings by N.S. Trubetzkoy, creator of the science of phonology....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Jun-1982, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9780816658183)
Germanic Accentology was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press...Daugiau...
