The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (Oxford Paperback Reference)

English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar. Read more... Abstract: This accessible and comprehensive dictionary seeks to come to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate A-Z access to 1000 grammatical terms and their meanings. Read more...

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