Whys & therefores: a rational look at the English language
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Sheffield, UK [u.a.]
Equinox Pub.
2011
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index |
| Umfang: | XV, 269 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781908049902 9781845536510 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Whys therefores
Autor: Rutherford, William E.
Jahr: 2011
CONTENTS
PREFACE xi¡¡
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ¦
ONE WORDS... WORDS... ?
? drivO/z 2
2 co^tet^t avid fuvictiovi 4
3 ope^ «??-d closed 6
4 briefes aitd tortor 8
? (??? 5 so frievidlu to your taste 10
PS ? to fei^ow a word ... 12
TWO TOGETHERNESS 13
T aij with a broom, ??/? hispajakuas 14
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12 a kvtlrror Litto the future 28
y 13 souviiA^ the serp 30
l aij 14 hamburgers § Li/vfotaLiAmeat 32
y 15 hair today/goiA^e tomorrow 34
PS 3 glarpos § elboises 36
FOUR THE END OF THE WORD 37
±(? curiosity, yes ... furiosity, ^vo 38
±y- wait, vjaitivus, waLter 40
j is LeiA-øthe^ avid qivtvi 42
V au IS) compute r ix atiovi s 44
y 20 ??? Longest word? 46
PS 4 Large church plains coLLapse 48
Tzaij y- to my fei/vowledge...
¦Dabj 2 The able mentor met who?
it was Lia- the office that they met
T aij ±o what ? waiA-t Ls ...
PS 2 ambLguLtw
THREE BEING CREATIVE
t a?? il worth a stai/w?(Levg ox/ulatiovi...
CONTENTS
FIVE THOSE LITTLE WORDS 49
more this,, a lot of that 50
22 piece o on fee 52
23 á sandwich ai/vd the cheese 54
24 see á blue pencil? ...It? ... oi/ve? 56
y 25 á tiger, the tiger, tigers 58
PS 5 addiction to generic terms 60
SIX SOUND SPELLING ONE 61
i ay 2£ why the g in, sign ? 62
t ny 2/· Why not ivedisine ? 64
r ay 2? why not editer ?... compera ble ? 66
i ay 2j) Why the i in both Vide avuA width ? 68
t ay 3? why cav^ t we spell it Li fee we say it? 70
PS Ufee a ghotioutt of water 72
SEVEN ILLOGICAL ~ IRRATIONAL ~ UNREASONABLE 73
31 ukvlocfenble 74
32 ui^thiiA-feable, i^vco^vceivnble 76
33 illegal, unlawful 78
34 it/*,- uwr 1Ë-01Á-- 80
uvic^ualified vs. disqualified 82
y- ao u.iA,iA,eoessary words 84
EIGHT REALLY BEING POSSESSED 85
t ay 3 £ Mi A,e eyes, have see^vthe glory ... 86
37· a good eight s sleep 88
B»e^ji s fe^vee a^d B-e^ i s feey 9®
y ?[uicfe-witted a^d o^ev^-wCiv^ded 92
t ay 40 the ei^d of the world 94
ps g three inflections 96
NINE SOUND SPELLING TWO -7
41 consonant clusters 98
42 tongue twisters 1°°
^ 43 syllabic consonants ¼2
c ay 44 weafe/strong § tense/lax é 104
y 45 weafe/strongg tense/lax ê 1°6
psj syllables a A,d the indefinite article 108
CONTENTS
TEN WORDS CATEGORIES iog
Day 46 invalid vs. invalid 110
Day 471 ? brake for animals 112
Day 4£ dusting and seeding 114
Day 4^ classifying, categorizing 116
Day 50 productive suffixes 118
PS 10 desertification vs. desertizatlon 120
ELEVEN QUESTIONS... QUESTIONS... 121
Day 5± talte to who (*m) ever comes by ... 122
Day 52 what difference does It mafee? 124
Day 53 let s loote at It, shall wé? 126
Day 54 who hit who? 128
Day 55 what big teeth ijou havel 130
PS 11 Who do ijou thlnfe ijou art 132
TWELVE WHAT NEXT, YOU IDIOM? 133
5 S a thorny issue 134
57^ Loofe it up; then loofe at it 136
y 5? Love is fire, love is m.aglc 138
T au ¿5J go Into a conia, com.e out of a cotana 140
Day GO hert avid there, plus or i-ulnus 142
PS 12 this, that, a^d the other 144
THIRTEEN NEGATIVES... NEGATIVES... 145
t aij ± we ve hardly scratched the ¿urface 146
62 Little did ijou. realize ... 148
é 3 Never will It... Soov^ It will... 150
64 «ny 152
^ s the z^evý of a VÎij 154
PS 13 Better late than never. 156
FOURTEEN COMPARISONS CONTRAST 157
T aij ê é razor sharp/as sharp as a razor 158
T a £ J- smaller than, more sm.all than 160
Day ê 8 better than tennis, or Dennis 162
Day j) more attractive women 164
Day y-o that, than, to, of, as 166
PS 14 comparatives and superlatives 168
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CONTENTS
FIFTEEN SOUND SPELLING THREE ieg
t auy± movable stress 170
r ay yo. -protest, protest, modest 172
y-3. lair § liar, vail § Vial 174
J-A- face / facial, medicine / medícate 176
ys icanunderstandyouperfectlywell 178
15 anthropophony and psychometer 181
SIXTEEN COMPOUND INTEREST 183
horseshoes § alligator shoes 184
jj highchaîrs vs. hîgh chairs 186
üay 7^2 small car wlltaqi claims 188
^í0 riøht,, UDU A,o¡ compoukvrf 190
SO left baiA-fëg rive gauche 192
the cabi^vfëey of the captain... 194
SEVENTEEN CONTRACTIONS, CONTRACTIONS! 195
51 the dog s bacfe 196
52 usage with have 198
53 wa^vttog have to 200
y S 4 OjOiA-^a g gotta 202
t ay S 5 Mary, ? thikvfë, s happy. 204
The solution to the problem is ^ot worfei^vg. 206
EIGHTEEN SPACE, TIME, PERSON 207
t au 8 coming § goiiA,g 208
? ? ^ sy- spatial deixis 210
isay SS temporal deixis 212
r ay Þ9 time ? ?,? space 214
t ay_9¿) personal deixis 216
PS IS1 ikv Kawaii vs. oía, H-awaii 218
NINETEEN MODIFICATION 219
adverbiais 220
relatives 222
dowiA, the garden path 224
£ ia-oui^ complement 226
T aijj)5 i/WHA-restrictives 228
l s 15 the house thatjacfe built 230
CONTENTS
TWENTY WORDS, WORDS... AGAIN 231
ikvs § outs of word structure 232
the secret Life of modais 234
Modais w-ust Kot be difficult. 236
j ^e bearable lightness of (certain) verbs, 238
loo strange things said a^d written 241
PS 20 to really zvwvj a word ... 244
ENVOI SOUND, SPELLING, MEANING 245
A PHONETIC ALPHABET FOR AMERICAN ENGLISH 247
NOTES AND SOLUTIONS 24g
REFERENCES 263
INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS 267
xi
Therefores aids the reader to arrive at generalizations for the shape of the English language:
words, grammar, meaning, sound and spelling. The format adopted throughout is that of a IgM-hearted
ongoing Socratic dialogue between a mentor and a pupil. The intended effects of suc^^ are:
awareness of what it means to ‘know’ a language; reliance upon native-language intuition; discovery
of what one didn’t know that one already ‘knows’ about the language; use of ungrammaticality as an
investigative tool; healthy questioning of received facts about language from so-called experts; and
usefulness of language play.
Whys Therefores can be read from start to finish, dipped into at random, expanded upon, even acted
out. The lanquaqe phenomena treated therein are indexed and tabbed to the disloques where thev are
language form and meaning. However, it will also prove useful to schools as classroom material to be
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