THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

English grammar presents a host of difficult issues: the attempt to fix grammar in the face of language change; the demands of 'good grammar and the fear of being ungrammatical; the desire to have a working knowledge of the structure of one's own language; the return of formal grammar teaching in schools; and the complexity of modern linguistics as a specialist discipline The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar offers the interested general reader, the language professional, and the student alike, straightforward and immediate access to 1,000 grommet is both an A-Z reference and guide to the subject

 All significant modern terms are included

(e.g. determiner, marked ness, non-count, and semantic restriction), as well as traditional grammar terms (for instance future perfect, govern, past participle, and superlative) 

Linguistics terms are also covered (langue, morph syntactic, speech act) together with phonetics (diphthong, labial, suprasegmental) and Chomsky an transformational grammar (deep structure, generative). Concise, straightforward definitions are accompanied

by detailed explanations, including examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing grammar texts.

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is an ideal point of access to the subject for the general reader or student, and a valuable reference book of first resort for English

teachers and other language professionals.