Concise Oxford Companion to the English LanguageThomas Burns McArthur, Roshan McArthur Oxford University Press, 2005 - 692 halaman From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language. |
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accent ACROLECT adjectives adverbs African Afrikaans alphabet American associated BASILECT borrowed Britain British CARIBBEAN ENGLISH classical clause Cockney CODE-SWITCHING common compounds consonants contrast Creole culture derived developed dialect Dictionary digraph distinct elements England English Language especially European example expressions formal French Gaelic German grammar Greek INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES inflected influence Irish island Jamaican Creole Latin letters linguistic literary literature loan translations loanwords London Maori mark meaning MESOLECT MIDDLE ENGLISH Modern English non-rhotic nouns occur official Old English origin participle phonetic phrasal verbs phrase PIDGIN plural preposition printed pronounced pronunciation prose RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION reference regional RHETORIC rhotic Roman schwa ScoE Scotland Scots semantic sentence singular slang social sometimes sound Spanish speakers speech spelling spoken standard English stress style suffix syllable teaching term texts Tok Pisin traditional translation usage usually variation verb vernacular vocabulary vowel words writing written