Inicio > Lenguas > Lingüistica > Lingüística histórica y comparada > Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

Michael Fortescue

16,58 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Lingüística histórica y comparada
ISBN:
9781471716867
16,58 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos
Sobre IBD

This volume is about the surprises lurking behind the genealogies of English words, often obscured by sound changes and borrowings from other languages. Though surprising - and often amusing - these etymologies are part and parcel of the history of the language. They encompass interesting shifts in meaning through the ages, and reflect the multiple sources that have added to the richness of English vocabulary.

Artículos relacionados

Otros libros del autor

  • Perspectives and metamorphoses
    Michael Fortescue
    The miniatures in the first part of this book all involve perspective. The perspective in all of them is in one way or another unusual: sometimes frame by frame, sometimes macroscopic, sometimes microscopic; sometimes it is the thing perceived that does the perceiving, and sometimes two or more perspectives are superimposed or blended. The metamorphoses of the second part are l...
    Disponible

    23,73 €

  • Perspectives
    Michael Fortescue
    These short pieces all involve unusual perspectives on time and space, on memory and perception, and on other people’s inner selves. They are interconnected beneath the surface by a number of related motifs. Sometimes it is the thing perceived that seems to do the perceiving, and sometimes two or more perspectives are superimposed. The ensemble constitutes a kind of amusing mu...
  • The Way In
    Michael Fortescue
    The planet is becoming increasingly uninhabitable thanks to escalating climate change, dwindling resources, and the anarchy resulting from the breakup of the World Federation. Humanity faces a dilemma: which way to escape total disaster? There are two possible routes: the long one via interplanetary migration, and the short one - the inner one - via direct communication with an...
    Disponible

    12,10 €

  • Circulating
    Michael Fortescue
    This collection of short short tales presents some of the stranger consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on individuals in the UK. Ranging from the pathetic to the hilarious, some are more credible than others, but all have an ironic twist to them. Entertaining reading for a difficult time. ...
    Disponible

    13,83 €

  • The Acquisition of Language
    Michael Fortescue
    These curious tales all have something to do with language: Does one really have to queue to be assigned a language at birth? How could one go about communicating with an alien but sentient ’thing’? Are words sufficient to navigate through the numerical labyrinth of Manhattan? Can the sum total of all human knowledge be transferred to electromagnetic circuits in rock? Can one i...
    Disponible

    17,68 €

  • The Lexicographers
    Michael Fortescue
    Words are escaping from the flagship project of the prestigious House of Words. Something must be done fast to get them back before a rival company is brought in to take over the project. But the lexicographers below deck are not being cooperative. Treated as slaves they use their time when not supervised to play word games, facing the threat of the overseer’s whip if discover...
    Disponible

    11,32 €