The Oxford companion to the English language
By: editor, Tom McArthur ; editorial assistant, Roshan McArthur.
Contributors: McArthur, Tom
Edition: Abridged ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1053
Subjects: English philology -- Encyclopedias; Language and languages -- Encyclopedias
Description: This book contains over 2,000 articles by more than 100 contributors, covering the central aspects of the English language, especially grammar, usage and style, dialect, pronunciation and the history of English.
Notes: "This work is an abridgement of The Oxford companion to the English language, a I, 184-page volume first published in 1992"--intro.