Etymology

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Yakov MalkielCambridge University Press, 11/4/1993EAN 9780521311663, ISBN10: 0521311667Paperback, 238 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cmLanguage: EnglishEtymology has been largely neglect ed since the beginning of this century. Professor Yakov Malkiel here sets out to rescue it from its fate. He enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the last two centuries, and sets them against the practice of etymology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He also examines the complex and changing interrelationship between etymology and general linguistics in recent times, with the intention of revitalising etymological research. Professor Malkiel is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished practitioners of the discipline, and brings to this work a remarkable breadth and depth of scholarship. Wide-ranging and imaginative, Etymology will be welcomed by all historical linguists and Romance linguists.Preface1. The nineteenth century2. The first half of the twentieth century3. The second half of the twentieth centuryConclusionReferencesIndex. Show more