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A Dictionary of Language

Author : David Crystal

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 49,98 MB

Release : 2001-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780226122038

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No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others.



Oxford English Dictionary

Author : John A. Simpson

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : pages

File Size : 37,57 MB

Release : 2002-04-18

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9780195218893

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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.



Dictionary of Languages

Author : Andrew Dalby

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 754 pages

File Size : 27,77 MB

Release : 2015-10-28

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1408102145

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Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.



Language and Linguistics

Author : Robert Lawrence Trask

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 19,51 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Language and languages

ISBN : 0415413591

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Book Description

"The new edition of this A-Z guide explores the main concepts and terms used in the study of language and linguistics. Containing over 300 entries, thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this book includes entires in: cognitive linguistics; discourse analysis; phonology and phonetics; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; and syntax and semantics." "Beginning with brief definition, each entry is followed by a comprehensive explanation of the origin and usage of the term. The book is cross-referenced throughout and includes further reading for academics and students alike."--BOOK JACKET.



An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages

Author : David Crystal

Publisher : Puffin

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 41,53 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Language and languages

ISBN : 9780140512342

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Book Description

In this guide to linguistic concepts and names, linguistic does not mean the technical terminology of linguistic sciences, but language in a more everyday sense. Terms are drawn from the various applied areas of language study, such as language teaching, speech pathology, stylistics, typography, and lexicography, as well as from core topics such as grammar, figures of speech, and basic phonetics. Some 2,750 cross-referenced entries are concisely defined in non- technical language. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-­Lunyala

Author : Saudah Namyalo

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 796 pages

File Size : 11,99 MB

Release :

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3961103291

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Book Description

This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala, a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by over 200,000 people in central Uganda. The dictionary part includes about 10,000 entries. Each lexical entry provides translations into English, example sentences, and basic grammatical information. The dictionary part is supplemented with an outline of the Ruruuli-Lunyala grammar, which treats most of the phonological and morpho-syntactic topics. This book is a result of a joined effort of a large team of linguists and many speakers of Ruruuli-Lunyala and is intended as a resource for linguists and Ruruuli-Lunyala speakers, learners, and educators.



A dictionary and grammatical outline of Chakali

Author : Jonathan Brindle

Publisher : Language Science Press

Page : 492 pages

File Size : 28,81 MB

Release : 2017-07-03

Category : Ghana

ISBN : 3944675916

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Book Description

This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.



A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

Author : R.L. Trask

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 11,5 MB

Release : 2013-04-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1134884206

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Book Description

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains over 1500 entries, providing definitions and examples, pronunciations, the earliest sources of terms and suggestions for further reading, and recommendations about competing and conflicting usages. The book focuses on non-theory-boumd descriptive terms, which are likely to remain current for some years. Aimed at students and teachers of linguistics, it allows a reader puzzled by a grammatical term to look it up and locate further reading with ease.



The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics

Author : Peter Hugoe Matthews

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 22,97 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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Book Description

This work is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. Written by Peter Matthews, Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge University, the book provides concise and informative entries across the whole field of linguistics form phonetics to formal semantics andincludes world-wide coverage of languages and language families.



The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics

Author : Keith Brown

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 39,30 MB

Release : 2013-12-05

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521766753

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Book Description

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms any undergraduate or graduate student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics and English language or in other degrees involving linguistics, such as modern languages, media studies and translation. lt covers the key areas of syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics and pragmatics but also contains terms from discourse analysis, stylistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. It provides entries for 246 languages, including 'major' languages and languages regularly mentioned in research papers and textbooks. Features include cross-referencing between entries and extended entries on some terms. Where appropriate, entries contain illustrative examples from English and other languages and many provide etymologies bringing out the metaphors lying behind the technical terms. Also available is an electronic version of the dictionary which includes 'clickable' cross-referencing.