A dictionary of English produced by the Collins/COBUILD project. The dictionary presents real English as it is used and has over 70,000 references and 90,000 examples. The layout and format enable easier and earlier use of a monolingual dictionary.
Provides the answers to language queries - from the meanings of the latest new words to the correct grammatical construction to uses - as well as essential facts about people and places in the news
This work includes: spellings of all irregular or confusing words; notes on current language given for problem words; over 200 specialist subjects, such as science and computing, are covered; most helpful synonyms for each word are highlighted and antonym lists are given for key words.
This major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and teachers of English.
This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Learner's Dictionary is now in colour, and offers learners of English in-depth coverage of today's language.
People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to harness the potential of natural chunking. This book explores the role of chunking in the description of discourse, especially spoken discourse. It appears that chunking offers a sound but flexible platform on which can be built a descriptive model which is more open and comprehensive than more familiar approaches to structural description. The model remains linear, in that it avoids hierarchies, and it concentrates on the combinatorial patterns of text. The linear approach turns out to have many advantages, bringing together under one descriptive method a wide variety of different styles of speech and writing. It is complementary to established grammars, but it raises pertinent questions about many of their assumptions.
This is the 6th edition of the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. This new edition of the flagship Collins Cobuild dictionary for advanced learners of English, gives up-to-date coverage of today's English, and transforms the learner's dictionary from an occasional reference into the best possible learning resource.
