Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Syntax of the English Language written by F. Th Visser and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1963 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Syntax of the English Language written by Frederik Theodor Visser and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Usage and Abusage written by Eric Partridge and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of a useful, entertaining guide to picking the right words (and avoiding the wrong ones). Janet Whitcut has revised Eric Partridge's popular reference to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. The book also includes a section of "vogue words", those that have acquired a new power and influence. An indispensable reference. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage written by Jean-Paul Kouega and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates the process of codification of a postcolonial variety of English, namely Cameroon English. It focuses on the present-day lexicon of this non-native variety of English. English has been in use in this territory for a long period of time and over the years, it has developed some characteristic lexical features which have not as yet been described fully. Previous researchers have been regarding linguistic innovations as cases of lexical errors or Cameroonisms; as a result, teachers and language purists have been discouraging their usage. Today, it is obvious that these innovations have come to stay; they are specific to Cameroon and therefore constitute Cameroon's contribution to the development of world language English. The book is divided into two parts. Part One gives background information on Cameroon (physical and human geography, economy and geopolitics), the language situation in Cameroon (ancestral and vehicular languages, major lingua francas and official languages) and the linguistic features of English in Cameroon (phonology, grammar and lexicology). Part Two describes the research design (textual material, method of data collection and informants) and provides a lexicographic description (spelling, word formative process, definition) of characteristic Cameroon English lexemes.
Download or read book An Historical Syntax of the English Language written by Fredericus Theodorus Visser and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 2002 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this study is to provide an outline of the development, from the earliest times to the present day, of all the English syntatical constructions with a verbal form as their nucleus. Professor Visser's description is based on a very extensive collection of documentary material covering every kind of writing in prose and poetry in the Old, Middle and Modern periods, drawing on quotations illustrating syntactical phenomena in Bosworth & Toller, O.E.D., M.M.E.D., E.D.D., and D.O.S.T., but also making reference to obsolete usages not found in any grammar, and to the views of English and American grammarians of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries on the various syntactical constructions. The volumes of this work originally appeared in the early sixties and seventies and were well received by readers and reviewers. Volumes 1 and 2 underwent correction in the light of these early reactions. We should like to think that this work will continue to be available to the scholarly world without great increases in the price. We are however only reprinting the individual volumes in small numbers, and so we have decided that in order to guarantee a consistent reprint and pricing policy for the future, the work should be available henceforth only as a set of four volumes.
Download or read book Longman Guide to English Usage written by Sidney Greenbaum and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988 and now available in paperback, a modern English handbook containing 5,000 entries that clarify all kinds of usage problems, with guidance on grammar, meaning, style, spelling, pronunciation and punctuation. Special attention is also paid to differences between American and British English.
Download or read book Oxford English Dictionary written by John A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Download or read book Modern American Usage written by Wilson Follett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modern American Usage has been called a book that "every literate American ought to read." Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume course in good writing brims with helpful answers—large and small—for readers who want to use English clearly, naturally, and correctly. Alphabetical for easy consulting (and full of cross-references), the book carries the reader to the entry that explains a troublesome word or phrase—and shows how to use or avoid it. Every page offers natural ways to avoid saying or writing the vague, the long-winded, the needlessly technical, and the hopelessly stale. With verve and eloquence, Erik Wensberg spears the empty words that clog clear thought—"impact," "frustrated," "basically," and many more—and offers us good English words that are definite and have more life. Offering standards by which to judge language now and in the future, Modern American Usage takes account of a generation of changes in American idiom and of attempts to reform the use of pronouns, titles, and phrases to fit shifting ideals of social justice. All this it does with easy learning and with sympathy alike for the experienced writer and for those who come new to American English.
Download or read book Practical English Usage written by Michael Swan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical English Usage is a dictionary of points in the language which often cause problems for students and teachers of English as a Foreign Language. It answers the student's question 'Is this right or wrong?' and the teacher's question 'How can I explain this to my classes?' Theinformation it gives is practical, reliable, and easy to find. There are over 600 entries, arranged alphabetically. Most of these cover grammatical topics, but there are also a number on vocabulary, idiom, style, pronunciation, and spelling. First published in 1980, the book is regarded as amasterpiece of its kind, and has acquired the authority and following of a classic. New to this edition The text has now been thoroughly revised. It contains more information: many entries have been extended to cover their topics more fully, and fresh entries have been added which deal with important points not included in the first edition. It is clearer: to make them easier to consult, entries havebeen reorganized and signposted with more subheadings; many explanations have been rewritten and improved. There is no change, however, in the book's original character as a wholly practical reference guide for all who want to know more about the language and to avoid making mistakes.
Download or read book Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language written by Thomas Burns McArthur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.
Download or read book Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism written by Geneviève Zarate and published by Archives contemporaines. This book was released on 2011 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1965 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard reference work throughout the English-speaking world, this work is remarkable not only for the completeness of its information but for the wit and common sense with which it has been compiled.
Download or read book The Concise Usage and Abusage written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to the History of the English Language written by Haruko Momma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars. An accessible reference to the history of the English language Comprises more than sixty essays written by leading international scholars Aids literature students in incorporating language study into their work Includes an historical survey of the English language, from its Germanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British and American English Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historical publications Introduces the latest scholarship in the field
