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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of recent research and data from very large corpora of American and British English - illuminating their many divergences and also points of convergence on which international English can be based. The book comprises more than 4000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet. The discussion notes the major dictionaries, grammars and usage books in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, allowing readers to calibrate their own practices as required. CGEU is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but offers a principled basis for implementing progressive or more conservative decisions on usage.
English language --- Anglais (Langue) --- Usage --- Dictionaries --- Dictionnaires --- 802.0 <03> --- -English language --- -423.1 --- Aa3 --- Germanic languages --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Engelse taal --- algemene taalbeheersing --- woordenboeken --- taalgebruik --- -802.0 <03> --- 802.0 <03> Engels. Engelse taalkunde--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- woordenboeken. --- 423.1 --- Usage (linguistic) --- United States --- Great Britain --- Australia --- Canada --- Dictionaries.
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This volume presents highlights of the first ICAME conference held in the southern hemisphere, in papers on new kinds of corpora for business and communications technology, as well as those comprising computer-mediated communication and college newspapers. The latter yield lively insights into the digitized discourse of younger adults and non-professional writers -- speech communities that have been underrepresented in the standard English corpora. Other groups that are newly represented in research reported in this volume are bilingual users of English in Singapore, Hong Kong and China, as corpus data is brought to bear on second-language speech and writing. The proposed corpus of spoken Dutch profiled here will support research into its variation in different genres and contexts of use in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Research on new historical corpora from C15 to C18 is also reported, along with techniques for normalizing prestandardized English for computerized searching. Meanwhile papers on contemporary usage show some of the continual interplay between British and American English, in grammar and details of the lexicon that are important for English language teachers.
800:311 --- 802.0-56 --- Kwantitatieve linguistiek. Computerlinguistiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- 800:311 Kwantitatieve linguistiek. Computerlinguistiek --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Discourse analysis --- Data processing.
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The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise, practical definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms. Each term includes examples and cross references to related concepts. 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. The dictionary pinpoints differences in the use of the same terminology, such as 'adjunct', 'complement', 'verb phrase', as well as alternative terms used for much the same concept, such as 'noun phrase', 'nominal group'; 'agentless passive', 'short passive'. It provides a wealth of examples, as well as notes on the relative frequencies of grammatical alternatives, such as 'will' and 'shall'. It also draws attention to some of the differences between spoken and written English grammar.
English language --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Englisch. --- Grammatik. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- General. --- Grammar. --- Grammatiker --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Analysis and parsing --- Diagraming --- Composition and exercises --- Germanic languages
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"The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise, practical definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms. Each term includes examples and cross references to related concepts. 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. The dictionary pinpoints differences in the use of the same terminology, such as 'adjunct', 'complement', 'verb phrase', as well as alternative terms used for much the same concept, such as 'noun phrase', 'nominal group'; 'agentless passive', 'short passive'. It provides a wealth of examples, as well as notes on the relative frequencies of grammatical alternatives, such as 'will' and 'shall'. It also draws attention to some of the differences between spoken and written English grammar"--
Engelse taal --- English language --- grammatica --- woordenboeken. --- Grammar
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.
English language --- Australianisms --- Style --- Usage
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Anglais (langue) --- Usage --- Anglais (langue) --- Usage --- Dictionnaires
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Highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies and in diverse regional habitats.
English language --- Ecolinguistics. --- Variation. --- Variation
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