The Origins of English Words

出版者:The Johns Hopkins University Press

作者:Joseph Twadell Shipley

页数:672

出版时间:2001-02-15

价格:USD 30.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780801867842

图书标签:English词源vocabulary词源学词汇语言英语Origin-English

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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.