new edition of AHDIER

[Tim Frazer]

Hooray!  How much is the PB?  Would like to have one.

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From: Your Name <Joe_Pickett at HMCO.COM>
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: new edition of AHDIER


> I hope it will not violate the spirit of the ADS listserve to use it to
> announce the publication of a second edition of The American Heritage
> Dictionary of Indo-European Roots.
>
>  While this is not a title directly related to American dialects, I have
> received a number of inquiries from ADS members over the years about the
> possiblity of our publishing a revised edition of this book (the first
> edition of which went out of print in the early 1990s).  So by way of
> providing a definitive answer, I post the "official" announcement of this
> book.
>
> Note that it is available in both hardback and paperback and that it has
> more than twice as many roots (1350 to 604) as AHD4's Appendix of
> Indo-European Roots.
>
> Joe Pickett
> Executive Editor
>
>
>
>
>                           BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
>
>                             ANNOUNCING THE NEW
>
>                        AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
>                           OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS
>
>                               Second Edition
>                    Revised and edited by Calvert Watkins
>
>                         Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000
>              ISBN 0-395-98610-9 (cloth), 0-618-08250-6 (pbk.)
>                     cloth: $28.00    paperback: $18.00
>
> The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots is an
indispensable
> resource for anyone interested in the history of English, its place in the
> Indo-European language family, and Indo-European comparative linguistics.
> Fully revised and updated, the 2nd edition contains more than 13,000
> English words that are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the
> reconstructed prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the
> advent of writing.
>    A unique reference work making the fruits of scholarly research
> accessible to a wide audience, the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots is
now
> even more useful for both students and specialists in many areas. Its
> features include:
>
> ·    Over 1300 reconstructed roots (twice as many as in the Appendix of
The
> American Heritage Dictionary of English)
> ·    New design for easier use, clarity, and visual friendliness
> ·    Revised and expanded introduction, now with map and illustrations
> ·    Etymologies of selected English personal and place names
> ·    25 new "Language and Culture Notes" at selected entries
> ·    Full index of the more than 13,000 English words treated
> ·    New features for specialists: laryngeals, palatal velars, and suffix
> entries
> ·    Table of basic Indo-European sound correspondences and full family
> tree
>
> The introductory essay shows how words in an unrecorded ancient language
> can be reconstructed and offers a wealth of fascinating information about
> Proto-Indo-European culture and society. Each individual root entry
> provides detailed information about the stages of development of English
> vocabulary and the prehistoric  relationships among words.
>
>
>
> Calvert Watkins is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the
> Classics at Harvard University and a leading expert in Indo-European
> studies. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, he is the author of
> several books, including the critically acclaimed How to Kill a Dragon:
> Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (1995).
>
> Visit Houghton Mifflin Co.'s website at
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com