The Oxford companion to the English language /
Companion to the English language
editor, Tom McArthur ; managing editor, Feri McArthur.
- xxvii, 1184 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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