The Oxford companion to the English language
By: editor, Tom McArthur ; managing editor, Feri McArthur.
Contributors: McArthur, Tom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1184
Subjects: English philology -- Encyclopedias; Language and languages -- Encyclopedias
Other titles: English language.
Description: Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.
Notes: Includes index.