Oxford dictionary of English grammar

• Main Authors: Chalker, Sylvia (Author), Weiner, E. S. C. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 1998
• Subjects: English language > Dictionaries > Grammar
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• Physical Description: 118 pages 18 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9780192800879; 0192800876

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 A-Z 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