Exercises accompanying each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English will be available online in the near future.

• Introduces students to some basic linguistic terms needed for the discussion of phonological and morphological changes accompanying word formation
• Designed to lead students to a finer appreciation of their language and greater ability to recognize relationships between words and discriminate between meanings
• An informative appendix discusses the history and usefulness of the best known British and American dictionaries
• Online readings and exercises to deepen and strengthen knowledge acquired in the classroom
• Both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment
• On-line readings and exercises designed to deepen and strengthen the knowledge acquired in the classroom
• Designed to lead students to a finer appreciation of their language and greater ability to recognize relationships between words and discriminate between meanings

Contents
An introduction to the textbook;
1. Word origins;
2. The background of English;
3. Composition of the early modern and modern English vocabulary;
4. Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes;
5. Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation;
6. Replacement rules;
7. Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy;
8. Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates, and other etymological pitfalls;
9. Semantic change and semantic guesswork;
10. The pronunciation of classical words in English;
Appendix I. An introduction to dictionaries;
Appendix II. Master root list.