Different languages organize their vocabularies in a myriad of ways. This book is an engaging, reader-friendly celebration of global linguistic diversity, with fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variety presented in each chapter. It is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about the extent of variation across the human lexicon.
Different languages organize their vocabularies in a myriad of ways. This book is an engaging, reader-friendly celebration of global linguistic diversity, with fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variety presented in each chapter. It is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about the extent of variation across the human lexicon.
Danko ipka is Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University. His research interests include lexicography, lexicology, morphology, and computational linguistics. His publications encompass over 150 papers and reviews as well as thirty books.
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Introduction Part I. How Words are Studied: A. What is a word? B. The internal affairs of words C. The external affairs of words Part II. How Words are Carved Out: 1. 1 =2, 5, 6 or 7 2. Beer eyes and wine-dark sea 3. Second cousins twice removed 4. I have three sons and a child 5. Concepts on the chopping block 6. Unripe bananas and ripe tomatoes 7. Mums and clocks mean death 8. The past is in front of us and the future is behind our back 9. Far and wide, here and there 10. Bottles with throats 11. Setting the TV on fire and extinguishing it Part III. How Things are Done with Words 12. Traduttore, traditore! 13. May you suffer and remember 14. I screw your 300 Gods 15. Either he is crazy or his feet stink 16. Shoo and scat 17. A dog and pony show 18. Blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada 19. Acts of darkness 20. This for that 21. Me Tarzan, you Jane 22. How many languages do you speak? 23. Harmful and shitty people Part IV. How Words are Born: 24. Cars with tails and leadfooted drivers 25. Monkey, dog, worm, snail, i.e. 'Crazy A' 26. Rovers and ski-rolls 27. Extra crispy soccer players 28. Chinglish and Eurenglish 29. Comrade, Sir 30. Beer and whiskey mighty risky 31. SOFs and SOWs Part V. Where Words Live: 32. Old-lady torturers, horse killers, and bad mornings 33. A fleeing bus 34. I wish that you enjoy in what you have deserved! 35. Happy hunting ground 36. A language is a dialect with an army and navy Part VI. A Word After: Part VII. Words about Words.
Introduction Part I. How Words are Studied: A. What is a word? B. The internal affairs of words C. The external affairs of words Part II. How Words are Carved Out: 1. 1 =2, 5, 6 or 7 2. Beer eyes and wine-dark sea 3. Second cousins twice removed 4. I have three sons and a child 5. Concepts on the chopping block 6. Unripe bananas and ripe tomatoes 7. Mums and clocks mean death 8. The past is in front of us and the future is behind our back 9. Far and wide, here and there 10. Bottles with throats 11. Setting the TV on fire and extinguishing it Part III. How Things are Done with Words 12. Traduttore, traditore! 13. May you suffer and remember 14. I screw your 300 Gods 15. Either he is crazy or his feet stink 16. Shoo and scat 17. A dog and pony show 18. Blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada 19. Acts of darkness 20. This for that 21. Me Tarzan, you Jane 22. How many languages do you speak? 23. Harmful and shitty people Part IV. How Words are Born: 24. Cars with tails and leadfooted drivers 25. Monkey, dog, worm, snail, i.e. 'Crazy A' 26. Rovers and ski-rolls 27. Extra crispy soccer players 28. Chinglish and Eurenglish 29. Comrade, Sir 30. Beer and whiskey mighty risky 31. SOFs and SOWs Part V. Where Words Live: 32. Old-lady torturers, horse killers, and bad mornings 33. A fleeing bus 34. I wish that you enjoy in what you have deserved! 35. Happy hunting ground 36. A language is a dialect with an army and navy Part VI. A Word After: Part VII. Words about Words.
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