A History of English Words
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Why does English have so many words? Where have they all come from? Why do we now have different vocabularies for various activities? In A History of English Words , Geoffrey Hughes answers these questions in a comprehensive study of the evolution of English vocabulary which covers words as diverse as anti–disestablishmentarianism to OK, and runagate to Monicagate. His arguments are supported and illuminated through use of numerous maps, word–fields and facsimiles of texts. This book traces the remarkable reconfigurations that the stock of English words has undergone in the past millennium. Fromits origins as a pure Germanic language, it acquired in the medieval period a double–layered structure as Norman–French became the ?upstairs? language of power and Anglo–Saxon that of the populace. Subsequent influxes from Latin and Greek in the Renaissance added a third layer, so that every semantic area of the language now has three terms from...Похожие книги
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