W

(Flavell & Flavell 3 2000: 163-4) Word The word word is clearly ambiguous. If you are asked how many words there are in a particular dictionary we take the word word in one ...

Solution 4-7

Semantic fields to look for are words to refer to the immediate natural surroundings such as river or tree, terms to refer to relatives such as mother or sister, parts of the body such as eye or ear, ...

C

(Flavell & Flavell 2005: 136) Car Although the motor car was not developed until very late into the 19th century, the word car had been around since the 14th century, the only difference being that it ...

M

(Lyons 1981: 139) Meat, meet, mete All these words are pronounced the same but spelt differently. They are homophones. To have two words which are homophones is quite common in many European ...

K

- A - | - B - | - C - | - D - | - E - | - F - | - G -| - H - | - I - | - J - | - K - | - L - | - M - | - N - | - O - | - P - | - Q - | - R - | - S - | - T - | - U - | - V - | - W - | - X - | - Y - | - Z - ...

N

Normally, you would expect one word to oust the other, as happened in the case of egg, where the Danish word survived, and in the case of path, where the Anglo-Saxon word survived.

L

- A - | - B - | - C - | - D - | - E - | - F - | - G -| - H - | - I - | - J - | - K - | - L - | - M - | - N - | - O - | - P - | - Q - | - R - | - S - | - T - | - U - | - V - | - W - | - X - | - Y - | - Z - ...

Keltische Wörter

In spite of the time interval of about 2000 years, a few dozen words of Celtic origin have found their way into present-day German.

Isn't it odd ...

.), and sometimes also more sophisticated words can convert into another category: manifest can be a noun, a verb, and an adjective. ...that in Swedish, the definite article is attached to the end of a ...

E

., demonstrated that substances other than amber had the same quality. He coined the word electricus, and he derived it form electrum , the Latin word for – amber! (Flavell & Flavell 3 ...

Sources

London : Arnold , 2004. Crystal, David: Words, Words, Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Crystal, David: The Stories of English.

Forschung

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Module 27

The prefix un- is often added to a stem to form a word which has the opposite meaning, as in unhappy. Which prefix is used with the following words?

General Info

How is stress assigned in English morphologically simplex words? How do we explain, for example, that words like begín, emít and rètrogréss have stress on the final syllable, but words ...

Wie lebten die Wikinger?

Hallo liebe Kinder! Oft sind sie als Seekrieger bezeichnet worden, die sich auf weite Schiffsreisen begaben, um mit reicher Beute in ihre Heimat zurückzukehren.

Module 11 -REVISE

Got some change, mate? Here’s a hint: Each word is somehow relevant, but it is not only the words which are relevant. » Solution

Abschlussarbeiten

Guidelines LaTeX-Template Word-Template Richtlinien (deutsch/englisch) LaTeX-Vorlage (deutsch/englisch) Word-Vorlage (deutsch/englisch)

U

In the speech of younger English people from the South-East, this vowel in words like union , human and usual has become more of a front vowel, near to the vowel in beat, and has very little lip-rounding. The ...

G

Grammar The origin of the word grammar is ...

Solution

The first phoneme of perfect, balance and mature is bilabial, and so is the last phoneme of –im. That is to say, in these words -im is more similar to /p/, /b/ and /m/ than /n/ would be.