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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx

... utility of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework of the Alvey Programme of advanced ... arises of how to develop such a detailed and substantial word list. Our approach has been to make use of the machine-readable source of a published dictionary, namely the Longr~sn Dictionary of ... formalism and current coverage of the English grammar in detail. Russell et al. (1986) describes the morphological anal- yser and dictionary system. Further relevant details of both projects...

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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... form of early American English. London usage reflected thelinguistic patriotism of the English Renaissance and accepted forms from a variety of regional and social dialects in the development of ... vigorousconversational speech.THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American English. Although the Great Vowel Shift had assigned ... redundancy first: of the 33 or so phonemes of English, only a smallsubset of their possible permutations can form actual words. Adult English speakersknow, for example, that trip is an English word....

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a dictionary of modern english ge sep 1987

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... manuscriptsn., nounNEB, New English Biblenn., nounsobj., objectOED, Oxford English Dictionary OID, Oxford Illustra-ted Dictionary opp., as opposed toOUP, Oxford Univer-sity Presspart., ... air-craft (formerly collective but now often A DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGEBYH.W. FOWLERSECOND EDITION revised bySIR ERNEST GOWERS Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS alienfor ... well said of the original book will still be true of this edition :'You cannot depend on the Fowler of Modern English Usage giving youeither an objective account of what...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

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... dis-tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on.In any case, “consensus of does notgo with “some kind of Maﬁa involve-ment” (in the third ... description of a market scene in Niger,a book of true adventure contains an ex-ample of the strict use of career:A man trying out a camel careered out of control, much to the amusement of the crowd.The ... reversal of thechronological order of events, often withafter, in an effort to update the news;and (2) use of condition in a specialsense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

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... Theterm also denotes a system of govern-ment by elected representatives of thepeople.Freedom means the state of being free from restraints or being free from of cialoppression or being able ... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and“each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... instead of became orwaxed enthusiastic, was disapproved by76 percent of The American Heritage Dictionary s usage panel. “He was con-siderably less enthused by signs of fac-tionalism,” instead of...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

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... rarekind of stone.”The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.”3. Properly used with A or ANKind of in another sense may go witha. Being a kind of ... fully. “She’s akind of butterﬂy.” / “George is a sort of expert.”The same goes for kind of a (or an) orsort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of atyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of ananimal at ... lastor the last of those or something similar.Among the items kept there are thediary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the ﬁrst edition of Pravda, the...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

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... been one of the mean-ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eightquotations, from the fourteenth centuryon, to illustrate that over can mean “Inexcess of, above, ... ending. See Plurals and singulars,2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS,HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3;Prepositions; SUPPORTIVE. OF ANY, OF ANYONE. See ANY,1, 2. OF COURSE. 1. Beneﬁt. 2. Draw-back. ... blow them out of the sky”(a non sequitur). “Little choice”? TheAmericans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of shooting; the choice of goinghome....

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

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... donewithout unduly raising the price of coalor of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit thesecond of; no preposition belongs thereat all.See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFFand “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and“FROM ... thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes andparentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the ﬂow of the sen-tence.When the set-off matter comes ... as thesubject of its verb (lives or comes).(See THAT and WHICH; WHO,THAT, and WHICH.)PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI-DENCE and PROOF.PROOF OF THE PUDDING. Theproverb about proof and pudding...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

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... ON, 1.)The derailment of a series ranks highamong the most common errors foundin print. The main cause of it is the fear of repetition, even the repetition of so in-offensive a word as and. ... saveby the lawful judgment of his peers orby the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and forthe bettering of our realm, and for themore ready healing of the discordwhich has ... deprived of liberty without dueprocess of law.The sentence afﬁrms a “right to be de-prived of liberty.” To invoke the Fifthand Fourteenth Amendments, insert notbefore “to be deprived.”A court of...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

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... a maga-zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common decency hasnot been all that common for longstretches of human history.” May onealso ... lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness?THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” inplace of WHICH. 4. Versions of a ... adjective and a sin-gular noun. Any of these work: thosekinds of law or that kind of law or laws of that kind.See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2(misuse of them); THESE and THOSE.THEMSELVES...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

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... Crowell Co., 1972.The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press,1971.The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur-rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, ... of Style, Chicago:The University of Chicago Press,1982.The College Standard Dictionary of thereference works 487REFERENCE WORKSMany of the reference works consulted in the preparation of ... Md.: Naval In-stitute Press, 1994.A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage,Bryan A. Garner, New York, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press,1987. Dictionary of Quotations, BergenEvans, New York:...