Sylvia Chalker and Edmund Weiner
1000 entries
In this work accessible and comprehensive entries on grammatical terms and their meanings come to the aid of anyone puzzled by the intricacies of the grammar of the English Language. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. Concise definitions of the wider subject of linguistics, including phonetics and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.
Sylvia Chalker is author of several grammar books, including Current English Grammar and English Grammar Word by Word, and was also a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the English Language, the Concise version of which is available on Oxford Reference Online.
Edmund Weiner was Co-Editor with John Simpson of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and is now Deputy Chief Editor. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He has a particular responsibility for the linguistic aspects of the dictionary text, as well as for words borrowed from unfamiliar languages.
