Author: R.L. Trask
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134884206
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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.
A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
Author: R.L. Trask
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134884206
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134884206
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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 Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy
Author: Thomas Mautner
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The language and concepts of philosophy explained.
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The language and concepts of philosophy explained.
The Penguin Dictionary of Politics
Author: David Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140512762
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Containing over 500 definitions of political theories, dogmas and phraseologies, this dictionary includes updated entries on the European Community and federalism alongside new definitions of the European Court of Justice and Central Banks, among others. Frequently-used terms in Middle-Eastern politics are explained, from Ayatollah and the Arab-Israeli wars, to fundamentalism and the Gulf War. It also includes sections on ideas that have become familiar terms over recent years, such as perestroika, glasnost, being politically correct, and Thatcherism, as well as issues that have taken on greater political significance - for example, abortion and environmentalism.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140512762
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Containing over 500 definitions of political theories, dogmas and phraseologies, this dictionary includes updated entries on the European Community and federalism alongside new definitions of the European Court of Justice and Central Banks, among others. Frequently-used terms in Middle-Eastern politics are explained, from Ayatollah and the Arab-Israeli wars, to fundamentalism and the Gulf War. It also includes sections on ideas that have become familiar terms over recent years, such as perestroika, glasnost, being politically correct, and Thatcherism, as well as issues that have taken on greater political significance - for example, abortion and environmentalism.
The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Compiles approximately 6,000 different proverbs organized by thematic headings such as beauty, love, or weather.
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Compiles approximately 6,000 different proverbs organized by thematic headings such as beauty, love, or weather.
The Penguin Dictionary of Biology
Author: Michael Abercrombie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Penguin Spelling Dictionary
Author: Market House Books Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140514254
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The 2nd revised edition aids writers who need a quick and easy spell-check. Not only does it show how to spell virtually every word likely to encountered, but it highlights common areas of confusion and traps for the unwary. It gives recommended hyphenation, British/American spellings, and includes many proper names - places and people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140514254
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The 2nd revised edition aids writers who need a quick and easy spell-check. Not only does it show how to spell virtually every word likely to encountered, but it highlights common areas of confusion and traps for the unwary. It gives recommended hyphenation, British/American spellings, and includes many proper names - places and people.
The Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms
Author: Daphne M. Gulland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
Author: David Wells
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140261493
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140261493
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Provides information on numbers and what makes particular ones noteworthy
The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich
Author: Donald James Wheal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141391304
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This accessible and authoritative dictionary provides a full background to the rise of Nazism and the role of Germany in the Second World War.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141391304
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This accessible and authoritative dictionary provides a full background to the rise of Nazism and the role of Germany in the Second World War.
The Penguin Dictionary of Geography
Author: Audrey N. Clark
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Penguin Dictionary of Geography has been expanded and revised and contains some 750 new entries to take into account developments in all areas of the subject. It now includes an explanation of terms connected with all aspects of the environment, natural and social; recent concepts in the field such as feminist geography, sustainability, uneven development and globalization; foreign and American terms; succinct, clear definitions of natural phenomena; sociological terminology; explanations of terms relating to climatology, ecology, economics, geology, remote sensing and statistics.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Penguin Dictionary of Geography has been expanded and revised and contains some 750 new entries to take into account developments in all areas of the subject. It now includes an explanation of terms connected with all aspects of the environment, natural and social; recent concepts in the field such as feminist geography, sustainability, uneven development and globalization; foreign and American terms; succinct, clear definitions of natural phenomena; sociological terminology; explanations of terms relating to climatology, ecology, economics, geology, remote sensing and statistics.