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Price: $25.50

Format:
Paperback 464 pp.
10 figures, 129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-10:
0192800876

ISBN-13:
9780192800879

Publication date:
June 1998

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

Edited by Sylvia Chalker and Edmund Weiner

Series : Oxford Paperback Reference

English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate A-Z access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings.

All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.

Introduction; Organization; DICTIONARY; List of Words Cited; List of Figures; Figures.

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Edmund Weiner is co-editor of the OED, Second edition, and author (with Andrew Delahunty) of the Oxford Guide to English Usage. Sylvia Chalker is the author of Current English Grammar, and a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Special Features

  • Straightforward and immediate A-Z access to grammatical terms and their meanings.
  • Up-to-date and traditional grammatical and linguistic terms, as well as controversial new coinages.