Etymology

by Yakov Malkiel

Book Overview

Etymology has been largely neglected 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521311667
• ISBN13: 9780521311663
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"