Concise Oxford Companion to the English LanguageThomas Burns McArthur, Roshan McArthur Oxford University Press, 2005 - 692 The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover's dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from Abbreviations to split infinitives, and includes substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, Pidgin, poetry, sexism, and slang. In addition, the Companion provides bibliographies for the larger entries, generous cross-referencing, etymologies for headwords, a chronology of English from Roman times to 1990, and an index of peopple who appear in entries or bibliographies. Packed with delightful surprises, the Companion will be an invaluable resource and a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the English Language. |
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Contents | |
A thematic list of key entries | |
The evolution of the alphabet | |
The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
The Oxford Companion to the English Language Thomas Burns McArthur,Feri McArthur Widok fragmentu - 1992 |
The Oxford Companion to the English Language Tom McArthur,Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur Widok fragmentu - 1996 |
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accent ACROLECT adjectives adverbs African Afrikaans alphabet American associated BASILECT Bible borrowed Britain British CARIBBEAN ENGLISH classical clause Cockney CODE-SWITCHING common compounds consonants contrast Creole culture derived developed dialect Dictionary digraph distinct elements England English Language especially European example expressions formal French Gaelic German grammar Greek inflected influence initial Irish island Jamaican Creole Latin letters linguistic literary literature loan translations loans loanwords London mark meaning MESOLECT MIDDLE ENGLISH Modern English non-rhotic Northern nouns occur official Old English origin participle phonetic phrasal verbs phrase PIDGIN plural preposition printed pronounced pronunciation prose RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION reference regional RHETORIC rhotic Roman schwa Scotland Scots semantic sentence singular slang social sometimes sound Spanish speakers speech spelling spoken standard English stress style suffix syllable teaching term texts Tok Pisin traditional translation usage usually variation verb vernacular vocabulary vowel words writing written