The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar

The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar

Author: Robert Lawrence Trask

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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This is a succinct guide to the grammatical laws and idiosyncrasmies that govern the English language. It focuses on current usage.


A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

Author: R.L. Trask

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1134884206

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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 Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style

Author: Paul W. Lovinger

Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9780142000465

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Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.


The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

Author: Sylvia Chalker

Publisher: OXFORD University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0192800876

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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.


The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: Rosalind Fergusson

Publisher: Penguin Mass Market

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Compiles approximately 6,000 different proverbs organized by thematic headings such as beauty, love, or weather.


The Penguin Guide to Punctuation

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation

Author: R L Trask

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0141991585

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The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.


The Penguin Dictionary of Language

The Penguin Dictionary of Language

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive, authoritative A-Z of everything the general reader (and the linguist) needs to know about language, languages, linguistics, grammatical and literary concepts.


The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

Author: Bas Aarts

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0191079006

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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology of English grammar. It contains over 1,600 entries with clear and concise definitions, enhanced by numerous example sentences, as well as relevant quotations from the scholarly literature of the field. This second edition is written and edited by Professor Bas Aarts of University College London, writer of the acclaimed Oxford Modern English Grammar. It has been fully revised and updated, with particular attention paid to refreshing the example sentences included within the text. There are over 150 new entries that cover current terminology which has arisen since the publication of the first edition, and there are also new entries on the most important English grammars published since the start of the 20th century. Hundreds of new cross-references enhance the user-friendly nature of the text, and the list of works cited has been thoroughly updated to reflect the current state of the field. A short appendix of web links has been added. All in all, this Dictionary is an invaluable guide to English grammar for all students and teachers of the subject, as well as all those with an informed interest in the English language.


The Penguin Dictionary of Electronics

The Penguin Dictionary of Electronics

Author: David Howard

Publisher: Not Applicable

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 9780141013978

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The fourth edition of this book which is highly recommended for students, teachers and technicians. Updated to cover all the latest developments in this field with many new articles and illustrations.