SerboCroatian-English Dictionary

This book is a large and comprehensive dictionary providing SerboCroatian equivalents of the English lexicon.

Morton Benson (Edited by), Biljana Sljivic-Simsic (With)

9780521384957, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 1990

844 pages
24.2 x 17.3 x 4.5 cm, 1.28 kg

' … excellent work … unique in its field.' American Translators Association Chronicle

This book is a large and comprehensive dictionary providing SerboCroatian equivalents of the English lexicon, including nearly 60,000 English headwords and 100,000 phrases, idioms, and collocations. It shows the accents of all headwords and forms. The vocabulary represents the speech of educated speakers and of the daily press. The dictionary pays special attention to the differences between the Eastern variety of SerboCroatian (with Belgrade as its centre) and the Western variety (with Zagreb as its centre). The Bosnian variety (with Sarajevo as its centre) shares features of other varieties. The English defining vocabulary clearly distinguishes between American and British English. This edition includes a large number of neologisms, including essential computer terms. The dictionary is the best available guide for speakers of SerboCroatian who wish to learn to express themselves in correct, idiomatic English, and for speakers of English who are learning SerboCroatian at any level.

Preface
Preface, second edition, revised
Preface, third edition
Introduction
Part I. General: 1. Scope of the dictionary
2. Making of accents
3. Literary variants
4. Effect of j on preceding consonants
Part II. Treatment of Entries: 6. Preliminary information
7. Nouns
8. Adjectives
9. Adverbs
10. Pronouns
11. Numerals
12. Prepositions
13. Verbs
Bibliography
Bibliography, second edition, revised
Abbreviations used
Dictionary
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries [CBDX]