Oxford Mini Dictionary and Thesaurus - Brossura

Oxford

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199692637 ISBN 13: 9780199692637

Casa editrice: Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

This is the reissued Oxford Mini Dictionary and Thesaurus. - now in an attractive new format.

This small dictionary and thesaurus offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary with over 40,000 words, phrases, and definitions and 65,000 synonyms and antonyms based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, a unique databank comprising hundreds of millions of words of English. Definitions are easy to understand, given in a clear, simple style, and avoiding technical language. Thesaurus entries are integrated into the dictionary entries, so you can find synonyms and antonyms easily. The centre section provides extra help with spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Violeta Demonte is Research Professor of Linguistics at the Spanish National Research Council. Her research has mostly concentrated on the areas of syntax and lexical semantics. Among her research topics are complement clauses, the syntax and semantics of adjectives, NP structure, aspect in secondary predication, and syntactic variation. She was the Director (with I. Bosque) of the Gramatica descriptiva de la lengua espanola (RAE-Espasa Calpe, 5.500 p.)

Louise McNally is Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her research focuses on various aspects of nominal, verbal, and adjectival semantics, the semantics of modification, and more generally on the syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics interfaces. Her most recent book, co-edited with Christopher Kennedy, is Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse (Oxford, 2008).

Contenuti:

• Introduction
• Guide to the dictionary and thesaurus
• Abbreviations
• A-Z Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Quick-reference grammar guide
• Commonly confused pairs of words
• Frequently misspelled words
• British and North American equivalents
• Collective names for animals
• Animals' homes
• Male and female animals
• Young animals

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199692637
• ISBN 13: 9780199692637
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 800