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Author : Press Boulevard Company Staff,Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press Staff
Publisher : Berkley Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UOM:39015047447407
A fascinating guide to English's exotic side...
Author : Jennifer Speake,Mark LaFlaur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English language
ISBN : 0199891575
This comprehensive reference includes detailed information on the spelling, history, and usage of thousands of foreign words and phrases used by English speakers. There are words from more than forty languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish. Terms from cooking, fashion, and music jostle with others from fine arts, history, law, politics, business, and travel in this great reference to words from around the globe.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : English language
ISBN : 4251699521
This comprehensive reference includes detailed information on the spelling, history, and usage of thousands of foreign words and phrases used by English speakers. There are words from more than forty languages, and terms from cooking, fashion, and music jostle with others from fine arts, history, law, politics, business, and travel.
Author : Berkley Boulevard Press,Press Boulevard Company
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613174259
This comprehensive reference includes detailed information on the spelling, history, and usage of thousands of foreign words and phrases used by English speakers. There are words from more than forty languages, and terms from cooking, fashion, and music jostle with others from fine arts, history, law, politics, business, and travel.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019362008
A dictionary of words and phrases regularly encountered in 20th-century British and American English, with words and phrases from more than 40 languages.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0198610513
Entries provide definitions and information on the origins, history, and usage of terms of foreign origin in English, including words in common use and artistic and scientific vocabulary.
Author : Andrew Delahunty
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199543682
This updated and revised edition is the authoritative guide to foreign words and phrases used in contemporary British and American English. Drawn from over 40 languages, the 6,000 entries detail the history of each word or phrase and provide selected quotations to clearly illustrate their use in the English language.
Author : Anthony Paul Cowie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198235062
This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners, from their beginnings in Japan and East Asia in the 1920s to the present day. Anthony Cowie describes the evolution of the major titles, and their fight for dominance of what soon became an enormous market. He shows how developments in lexical and grammatical theory crucially affected the content and structure of ELT dictionaries.
Author : Glynnis Chantrell
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000049148985
The fascinating origins of more than 11,000 core words in English are compiled in this reference that includes word usage, social history of words now used, and special features on various meanings of words. Original.
Author : Oxford University Press Staff
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0425164209
Author : Thomas Vetsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638217958
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Good, University of Zurich (English Seminar), 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The history of dictionaries certainly goes back to the 8th century, when the custom of making collections of glosses grew up. These collections, called glossarium or glossary, were a great help to students, as they were also a sort of dictionary. In the 10th century, Abbot Ælfric produced a Latin grammar book, including a short Latin-English dictionary - the first of its kind. In 1440 Galfridus Grammaticus produced the first English-Latin dictionary which was printed in 1499 by Pynson and bore the title Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum. Until the 16th century, the emphasis of dictionaries lay on translating foreign words into English. Apparently, there was no need for an English-English dictionary, i.e. a dictionary which described English words to English people. In that time a lot of foreign words, mostly Latin ones, made their way into ‘standard’ English, which at first caused no debate but then was criticised by language purists. According to them English was in danger of being taken over by foreign languages and needed special support. This idea was the beginning of English-English dictionaries. In 1604 Robert Cawdry brought out his Table Alphabetical. About three thousand ‘hard’ words which had become common in English were listed and explained. Henry Cockeram produced the first work with the title The English Dictionary in 1623. Like other dictionaries of that time, it primarily dealt with ‘difficult’ English words. A polyglot dictionary of eleven languages was published in 1617 by John Minsheu. The Ductor in Linguas was the most monumental dictionary in the 17th century and for the first time, etymology was given some attention. In 1674 John Ray produced a dictionary which dealt with dialect words. It was an unexpected success and people all over the country began looking for additional local terms and sent them to Ray, who brought out a second and enlarged edition of this dictionary in 1691. John Ray can be regarded as the “remote originator of the English Dialect Society” (Mathews 1966, p. 26). Until then, dictionaries followed the line of old glossaries and only dealt with terms which were not common or rather unusual in the English language. This changed in the 18th century when the first attempts to publish dictionaries containing all English words were made. In 1702 John Kersey published A New English Dictionary; or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language... [...]
Author : William Ronald Leben,William R. Leben,Brett Kessler,Keith Denning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190925475
"This book is designed for college-level courses about English words and word structure. It explores how units of a language-sounds, word elements, words-function together and how a language functions in society over time. The ultimate aim is to acquaint native and non-native English speakers with aspects of English vocabulary that may be new to them. This includes practice in analyzing complex words, tracing how English got to its present state, and outlining factors that influence people's attitudes toward English usage. We hope this book will serve students in any field of study looking for better comprehension of English vocabulary as well as anyone curious about the language, its development over time, and its growing importance as a world language"--
Author : Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson,Eugene Ehrlich
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0060916869
"Definitions of more than 15,000 foreign expressions from more than 50 languages that are likely to be encountered in literature, conversation, newspapers, magazines, in broadcasting and on television."--Jacket.
Author : Alexander Tokar
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823391807
This monograph is concerned with the question of why some English words have more than one stress pattern. E.g., 'overt vs. o'vert, 'pulsate vs. pul'sate, etc. It is argued that cases such as these are due to the fact that the morphological structure of one and the same English word can sometimes be analyzed in more than one way. Thus, 'overt is the stress pattern of the suffixation analysis over + -t, whereas o'vert is due to the prefixation analysis o- + -vert (cf. covert). Similarly, pulsate is simultaneously pulse + -ate (i.e., a suffixed derivative) and a back-derivative from pul'satance. "Tokar's approach in the use of both dictionary (OED) and corpus data (YouTube) holds promise of a scholarly breakthrough on the vital linguistic prosodic topic of English stress assignment of doublets and of stress assignment in general." (Irmengard Rauch, Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley)
Author : Marie-Hélène Corréard,Mary O'Neill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 0198645279
About the Oxford Starter Dictionaries: Oxford's new Starter range of dictionaries breaks fresh ground in language-learning providing essential information in a completely unique way. Specially designed for beginners, these essential volumes are not merely scaled-down versions of larger dictionaries. Every effort has been made to approach foreign languages from the point of view of the beginning student who may be unfamiliar with the conventions of the more traditional bilingual dictionary, which presupposes a basic knowledge of the foreign language. Each dictionary contains approximately 20,000 words covering everyday vocabulary and core survival phrases. From irregular verb forms to common idiomatic usage, the Oxford Starter Dictionaries provide generous coverage of those aspects of the foreign language which are less easy to decode for English speakers. These innovative teaching tools are unparalleled as accessible and user-friendly introductions to foreign languages. Each Starter dictionary provides: *Maximum Guidance The English-foreign language side provides the user going into the foreign language with maximum guidance offering detailed coverage of essential grammar, clear signposts to the correct translation for a particular context and a wide selection of example material. The foreign language-English side is designed to capitalize on what English speakers know about their own language. Irregular verbs, adjectives, and plurals are all featured in the wordlist. *Correct Grammar and Usage Points of basic grammar are reinforced using the ! sign and colloquial usage is marked for both English and the foreign language. More complex grammatical issues are dealt with in short notes at appropriate points in the text or in the more detailed boxed grammar notes. *No Abbreviations The only abbreviations the user will find are those which are entirely self-explanatory as headwords in the wordlist. Parts of speech, gender labels, regional markers, and grammatical terms are all given in full with a glossary providing explanations and examples of different parts of speech in use. *The Best Translation The language used in examples is carefully chosen to guide the learner to the correct translation. The wordlist and the clear, lively examples are drawn from English and the foreign language as it is currently used. *Accessibility and Clarity Each dictionary page is refreshingly uncluttered. The move from one language to another is explicitly indicated using = signs. *Thematic Boxes Thematic boxes are provided containing the vocabulary relevant to areas such as days of the month, games and sports, and talking about time. *Symbols Colloquial usage is clearly indicated by means of symbols which are explained at regular intervals at the bottom of the page.