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Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics

Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde

This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf… read more

[Not in series, 201] 2016. xi, 230 pp.

Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech

Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková

A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index

Ute Dictionary

T. Givón

This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 15] 2016. xiv, 373 pp.

Dizionario Combinatorio Italiano

A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio

Le parole di una lingua non sono mai isolate ma si usano in combinazione e non con qualunque parola ma solo con alcune. Per parlare bene bisogna usare le combinazioni appropriate. In italiano si dice un tozzo di pane per indicare un pezzo di pane, ma si dice anche un tozzo di carne? E una… read more

[Not in series, 178] 2013. xxii, 1392 pp. (2 vols. set) (708+706)

Dizionario Combinatorio Compatto Italiano

A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio

[Not in series, 171] 2012. xxvi, 642 pp.

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson

Compiled by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson

Speak and write perfect English!BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say “mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly”). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say “I want you to go = What I want… read more

[Not in series, BBI] 2010. xxxix, 462 pp.

The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Revised edition

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson

Speak and write perfect English! The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations tells you which words go together in English and which words do not.The BBI will help you master the difficulties of common but unpredictable English phrases and word combinations.The BBI shows key differences between… read more

[Not in series, BBI 1 (2nd)] 1997. xl, 386 pp.

Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations

Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson

All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more

[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 3

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

[Not in series, DECFC 3] 1992. 325 pp.

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)

Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland

Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.

The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Dictionary and workbook (set)

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

[Not in series, BBI S] 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (1st)] 1991. x, 58 pp.incl. key

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 2

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

[Not in series, DECFC 2] 1988. 344 pp.

The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson

This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more

[Not in series, BBI 1 (1st)] 1986. xxxvi, 286 pp.

A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon

Compiled by Roy Albert and David L. Shaul

A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon is a lexical research tool for persons interested in the Hopi language. An effort has been made to include the most frequent forms of basic roots. The work is designed to serve as wide-ranging an audience as possible: Hopi speakers as well as those not fluent in… read more

[Not in series, 19] 1985. vii, 204 pp.

Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 1

Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk

Sole distribution world-wide excl. CanadaThe Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain (DECFC) is the first dictionary that provides the user with systematic and complete descriptions of each entry word. The DECFC endeavours to realize the age-old dream of all lexicographers… read more

[Not in series, DECFC 1] 1984. 172 pp.