Keltische Namen
So tragen zum Beispiel alle größeren und auch viele kleinere Flüsse Namen, die uns über das Gallische vermittelt worden sind. Die Kelten sind nicht immer die Urheber dieser Benennungen, ...
Vor der Tagung
Sind die Hilfskräfte in ihre Aufgaben eingewiesen worden? Sind die Verantwortlichkeiten für bestimmte Aufgaben eindeutig, z.B. durch schriftlich festgelegte Aufträge/Vermerke, geregelt?
Solution 4-4
The argument runs approximately like this: There is a word in Indo-European for salmon, so we can assume that the Indo-Europeans lived somewhere near rivers which had salmon, there is a word for ...
Solution 4-6
The word telephone may just be a loanword and say nothing about whether these languages are related.
J
(Flavell & Flavell 3 2005: 243-4) Jellyfish In spite of its name, not a fish, but a sea creature with a body like jelly. (German Qualle) Jubilee The word jubilee comes from a Hebrew word, ...
Solution 9-2
However, whereas in German all words are compounds, look like compounds and are compounds which consist of nouns only, English makes use of various strategies: - The words are compounds but spelt in ...
B
They were no more than benches set up in the main squares by men who changed and lent money. From there, the word bank derived, the Italian word for bench being banco. (Flavell & Flavell 3 ...
Word Classes
The classification of words into word classes goes back to classical antiquity, to the Greek philosophers Platon and Aristotle.
Module 21
Which of the following words contains a diphthong? Remember that spelling is irrelevant. A word may contain a diphthong although it contains only one vowel grapheme, i.e. one letter which ...
Solution
The vowel in change and mate is pronounced not The word some is pronounced not The word got is pronounced not The words are separated in writing, but ...
Solution 4-5
The problem is that words consist of two sides, form and meaning, and either of them may change. So it might be that the word in Proto-Indo-European for salmon was not used to refer to salmon, but to ...
A
Other words which were remodelled in this way were conferm to confirm, aorn to adorn or dette to debt (Crystal 2005: 156). Advocate In English, many words belong to more than one word class ...
D
Spanish diente de león and Italian dente di leone). Curiously, in modern French, the current word is not word dent de lion, but pissenlit. Day A day is not necessarily the same as a day . ...
Solution 11-2
You often find the strong form of a word, e.g. in isolation or when the word is stressed, and you often find the weak form of the same word, e.g.
P
In this sense, a relatively new word, first being recorded in the OED in 1874, the other words being common in Britain when America and Australia and New Zealand were settled.
Tammy Ganster
She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which investigates inter-individual variation in stress position both in the production and perception of English complex words. The thesis is supervised by ...
Javier Sanz
Research Interests Linguistic theory Interface theory, Optimality Theory, Metrical Phonology, phonetically grounded phonology, associationist vs. algebraic accounts of natural language computation, ...
Did you know ...
The almost magical quality which was given to literacy is also reflected in the English word spell, which also means ‘words spoken by a wizard’, words which are supposed to have ...
Module 13
Certain words are more likely than others to accompany other words. The words thick and dense, for example, can both accompany the words fog, forest and smoke, but only thick can ...
