This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The second edition incorporates new developments in morphology at both the methodological and the theoretical level. It introduces the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with state-of-the-art computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.

In 1000 Words to Expand Your Vocabulary, each entry contains outlines of word origins, examples in context and a wealth of word related trivia.

The Forty-Day Word Fast focuses on several biblically sound mechanisms to help you change your words and your life. Not only will your vocabulary change, your heart also will be transformed in just forty days.

A combination of book 1 with new poems.A stunning and soul searching book of poetry in the form of parables. You will find answers to what and who YOU are. You will find an awareness that you are loved. Many characters inhabit this book. Some loving some cruel. The word images will make you laugh or cry or ponder your destiny. Symbolism in words about greed,envy,lust passion and pain envelope you.The poems lead you on a spiritual journey from the beginnings of awareness to fulfillment in God Almighty and Jesus Christ This book is not slushy or sentimental.But powerfull and modern. Biblical yet very human. Wonderful for christian or non. Someone of any faith or none. Easy language but with powerfull concepts.Superb for helping in counselling and healing emotions.Superb for self awareness and self development. NOT AN ORDINARY BOOK.Study guide incorporated also original illustrations. ENJOYCONTACT author [email protected] for special prices

Obsolete old words from seventeenth-century English villages reflect the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, bizarre foods, magic, horses, outrageous sexism, feudal duties. New words, first appearing in print 1650–1800, reflect a middle-class culture very different from an earlier courtly culture, interested in money, coffee-houses, and self-fulfillment. The book contains chapters on pre-industrial and middle-class culture, the scientific revolution, and semantic change. They give strong evidence that new words and the new senses of old words played a key role in the British Enlightenment, its links with quantification and natural science, its tendencies towards reorganization and democracy, its redefinitions and revitalizations of women’s roles, social stereotypes, the public sphere, and the very concepts of individualism, sociability, and civilization itself.