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... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other way round. There has been no attempt to alter the origi- nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced ... for their typicality, 125 Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments James McCracken Oxford University Press mccrackj@oup.co.uk Abstract This research note describes the early stages of...

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... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of what is known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of a syllable consisting of the initial consonant of the ... forms of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at which they...

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... the 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 ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal of the toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition of the ... source of lexical information. Therefore, rather than batch process the MRD source, the lexicon development software is based around the concept of semi-automatic and rapid construction of entries,...

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... television, The level of facticity has dropped on the part of both of the candidates,” was she using a recognized word? The noun facticity is defined in The Oxford English Dictionary as The quality ... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is most far in a figurative sense: Of the paint- ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur- thest from reality.” Those cool to the idea of distinguish- ing the ... weather in the center of the storm. The narrator of a documentary film said, “At the eye of the hurricane, the wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He, or the writer, was wrong. In the eye, “winds diminish...

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... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone. Therefore a correction of the first exam- ple is either The drug activity went down . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... the various other theories concerning the alphabet are the hy- potheses that the alphabet was brought by the Philistines from Crete to Palestine, that the various ancient scripts of the Mediterranean ... [etc.]. . . . Another hypothe- sis, the Ugaritic theory, evolved after an epoch-making discovery. . . . Among “theories” are several “hypothe- ses”? Another “hypothesis” is a the- ory”? The writers...

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... two parts: the topic and the controlling idea. - The topic sentence is the subject of the paragraph. Eg: The color yellow is the color of mental activity. The topic: the color yellow - The controlling ... is the Introduction of the study which introduces my reasons and aims to write the thesis. This part includes the aims, scopes, methods and design of the study. Part B is the main part of the ... And the structure is one of the features of the news story’s paragraph. According to Do Huu Chau [2]: “Structure is an art of the performance on content factors of the writers. Structurally, the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2012, 11:12

... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... are given to illustrate the point being discussed. The majority of these are real, rather than invented, examples. Many of them have been drawn from the works of some of the best twentieth-century ... speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no censure of the style of the author is implied. The aim is to illustrate the varieties of usage and to display the best, thereby making...

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