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Richard Allsopp (1923–2009)

Auteur de Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

6 oeuvres 35 utilisateurs 3 critiques

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Date de naissance
1923
Date de décès
2009-06-04
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Guyana
Professions
lexicographer
linguist

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New Register of Caribbean English Usage par Richard Allsopp
The New Register of Caribbean English Usage is a pan-Caribbean publication which seeks to provide a representative sample of the development of Caribbean English usage since 1992, after the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage was completed. The New Register, which was intended to be a companion work to the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage on a smaller scale, comprises about seven hundred items, including words with new senses or usages, acronyms, and abbreviations that have emerged out of the ecological and cultural domains of the CARICOM territories, from Guyana to Belize.
The continued inventorying and chronicling of Caribbean culture and history are vital in helping us to recognize and understand our unique Caribbean identity, and this is an essential reference book for students and educators in the region and in the diaspora.… (plus d'informations)
 
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soualibra | Jan 9, 2020 |
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage par Richard Allsopp
The standard reference work for Caribbean English. This was the work of a lifetime, and supplements such major works as Cassidy and LePage's Dictionary of Jamaican English.
 
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Fledgist | 1 autre critique | Oct 18, 2008 |
Dictionary of Caribbean English usage par Richard Allsopp (ed.)
Maintains the high standard you expect from Oxford.
 
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languagehat | 1 autre critique | Dec 16, 2005 |
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Œuvres
6
Membres
35
Popularité
#405,584
Évaluation
4.9
Critiques
3
ISBN
8