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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108421638
This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198868682
This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional verbs respectively. In Part II, each chapter deals with a set of related prepositions, providing an integrated account of the meanings for each, and explaining how these are linked to their grammatical properties. There are two chapters on relational prepositions - principally of, for, by, and with - which have only minor reference to space or time. These are followed by seven chapters on prepositions whose basic meaning is spatial, with many extensions to abstract senses, and one that ties together the varied ways through which prepositions deal with time. The final chapter outlines how some people have attempted to prescribe how language should be used; it also covers dialect variation, foreign learners' errors, and prospects for the future. The book is written in Dixon's accustomed style - clear and well-organized, with easy-to-understand explanations, and with limited use of technical terms. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
Author : Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300106998
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470656419
A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world. Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field Includes definitions both for the varieties of English and regions they feature, and for terms and concepts derived from a linguistic analysis of these varieties Explores important research issues including the transportation of dialects of English, the rise of ‘New Englishes’, sociolinguistic investigations of various English-speaking locales, and the study of language contact and change. Reflects our increased awareness of global forms of English, and the advances made in the study of varieties of the language in recent decades Creates an invaluable, informative resource for students and scholars alike, spanning the rich and diverse linguistic varieties of the most widely accepted language of international communication
Author : David Grambs
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393292510
"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192639295
This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional verbs respectively. In Part II, each chapter deals with a set of related prepositions, providing an integrated account of the meanings for each, and explaining how these are linked to their grammatical properties. There are two chapters on relational prepositions - principally of, for, by, and with - which have only minor reference to space or time. These are followed by seven chapters on prepositions whose basic meaning is spatial, with many extensions to abstract senses, and one that ties together the varied ways through which prepositions deal with time. The final chapter outlines how some people have attempted to prescribe how language should be used; it also covers dialect variation, foreign learners' errors, and prospects for the future. The book is written in Dixon's accustomed style - clear and well-organized, with easy-to-understand explanations, and with limited use of technical terms. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
Author : Howard Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014618865
An examination of the rise of the English dictionary, the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting their usage and public attitudes towards them. The advantages of a thesaurus-like approach over the traditional format are discussed.
Author : Betsy Van der Veer Martens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031325304
This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes. The author covers the concept of the keyword from its deictic origins in primate and proto-speech communities, through its development within oral traditions, to its initial appearances in numerous graphical forms and its workings over time within a variety of indexing traditions and technologies. The book follows the history all the way to its role in search engine optimization and social media strategies and its potential as an element in the slowly emerging semantic web, as well as in multiple voice search applications. The author synthesizes different perspectives on the significance of this often-invisible intermediary, both in and out of the library and information science context, helping readers to understand how it has come to be so embedded in our daily life. This book: Provides a thorough history of the keyword, from primate and proto-speech communities to current times Explains how the concept of the keyword relates to human cognition and communication processes Highlights the applications of the keyword, both in and out of the library and information science context
Author : Roberto Facchinetti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781443843065
Dictionaries are mines whose word-gems encapsulate centuries of language history and cultural traditions; they are store-houses of meanings and uses, ‘lamp genies’ to be set free at the very moment readers set their eyes on their entries. This book is an attempt to free such lamp genies, by discussing the role of dictionaries in the identification and expression of cultural aspects in language, with special reference to English. As such, its eleven chapters have been arranged to focus on general, genre-specific, monolingual and bilingual lexicography, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective. The book will be of use to lexicographers and lexicologists, as well as to corpus linguists, historical and contemporary English scholars, students of English, and anybody interested in the juice of culture(s) that can be fruitfully extracted from dictionary entries.
Author : Mariusz Piotr Kamiński
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260000
This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions. The main concern of the author is the role of a definition vocabulary in how foreign learners understand and perceive dictionary definitions. The author takes the reader through a detailed historical account of controlled vocabularies and examines definitions in a range of English dictionaries with respect to their vocabulary loads. He performs a series of experiments with university students to reveal merits and shortcomings of restricted vocabularies. This monograph has been written with the aim to fill a gap in the literature on defining vocabulary. It is intended for lexicographers, dictionary editors, course designers, teachers, and students, as well as anyone who wishes to explain words in an intelligible way.
Author : Richard Chenevix Trench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCLA:L0054138649
Author : R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004446519
In The Essence of Linguistic Analysis by R. M. W. Dixon relates together, in a clear and succinct manner, individual grammatical categories, showing their dependencies and locating each in its place within the overall tapestry of a language.
Author : Andishe Gottlieb
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638442381
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A (1,0), Middle Tennessee State University, course: Modern English Grammar and Usage, language: English, abstract: Most students don’t know how different types of dictionaries can be used. Some of them don’t even know that there are different types of dictionaries, although the knowledge of how a term can be best found in the appropriate dictionary is an aid for academic research and will be helpful on their future job. This paper is to inform not only students but also the general public who is interested in dictionaries about the use of dictionaries, as well as the many different types and kinds of dictionaries that are available to them. Dictionaries can help everyone to better understand the own language, or languages one is learning. This paper also contains a list of good monolingual and bilingual dictionaries with some sample pages. It also provides the explanation of certain types of specialized dictionaries which seemed interesting and important to the author.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon,Nerida Jarkey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192845924
The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. It draws on data from a range of diverse languages to examine how aspects of grammar such as honorifics and possessives relate to societal practices. It will be a valuable resource for typologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon,Nathan M. White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198865681
This volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.
