Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher: London : Library Association
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Annotated bibliography of foreign language grammars, dictionarys and teaching and training materials (incl. Audiovisual aids) - includes dutch, chinese, finnish, russian, french, italian, spanish, Portuguese and the Scandinavian languages.
Author: Geoff Barnbrook
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027296170
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based on definition sentences used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and parser.
Author: Sina Bröcker
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638685861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2+, University of Rostock (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft), course: Hauptseminar: Corpus dictionaries and lexical structure, 10 Literaturquellen entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The first dictionary was published in 1984. At that time the focus lay on lexicography especially on English as an international language. Nowadays nearly every three month new dictionaries appear. They are mainly published from publishing houses in Great Britain. This is due to the dominance which British lexicography won in the 1960s. When the first Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English appeared in 1978 British lexicography had finally won dominance to American lexicography. In 1987 the second edition of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Collins COBUILD Dictionary of the English language appeared. These works were completely different to the ones before. According to Sidney I. Landau these works were “in many respects a daring departure from the customary practices of lexicography, and particularly of ESL lexicography” . They offered a new look at what the user needed. The aim of this paper is to take a closer look on these dictionaries to check whether they are working with authentic language material to explain words and how easy or difficult it is for a user to understand the explained issues. In grammars the different features of a language are considered systematically. Spoken and written language material is described. Nowadays the grammarians are working together with Universities or at least base their entries on large databases that include millions of texts taken out of various forms of writing and communication situations. This system is meant to help to provide the use of authentic language material that is familiar to the grammar user. In the analysed grammars invented examples are avoided with the aim to offer the user a better access to the explained issue. The aim of this paper is to analyse the used example solutions by keeping an eye on whether they are really authentic and easy to understand or not better than the invented ones that were often used in former times.
Author: Stechert-Hafner, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: G.E. Stechert & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: Edward Stankiewicz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110859718
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Henk Courtz
Publisher: Magoria Books
ISBN: 0978170768
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Carib language, sometimes called Galibi or True Carib, is spoken by some 7,000 people living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, and Brazil. This resource contains a detailed description of Carib grammar and the most extensive inventory of Carib lexemes and affixes so far. (Foreign Language-Dictionaries/Phrasebooks)
Author: John Ash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Gerhard Leitner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245495
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This raises questions as to the relationship between theoretical linguistics and grammar writing and calls for more research into this area, especially for the period from 1800 onwards, which was crucial for the development of grammatical thinking and its acceptance (or rejection) at all educational levels today.This volume brings together work from international experts on the historiography of English grammar writing who deal with a variety of topics grouped into three overlapping sections: I. Native Grammars of English, II. Non-native Grammars of English, and III. Grammatical Analyses. The volume includes summaries of the articles and a name index.
