Vietnamese-English Student Dictionary (Revised & Enlarged)

By Nguyen Dinh Hoa and Nguyẽ̂n Đình Hoà

This new edition of Vietnamese-English Student Dictionary is a reprintof the 1967Saigon edition and is an expanded version of the author's earlier Vietnamese-English Dictionary (Saigon, 1959;reprinted, Tokyo, 1966).Still a compact and handy one-volume student reference work--the only one of its kind--this edition contains some 45,000entries (vice some 25,000entries of the previous edition), and is thoroughly revised to provide illustrative examples--both morphemes and words--gleaned from newspapers and periodicals, government publications, and textbooks in both languages.

An exceptionally rich corpus, the dictionary lists reduplicative forms, additive forms, verb-object compounds, Sino-Vietnamese com­pounds, and other polysyllabic loan-words from French, Malay, English, and other languages. The English equivalents are given in clear, accurate, and idiomatic English. A Guide to Pronunciation provides directions to the principal Vietnamese dialects.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809304767
• ISBN13: 9780809304769
• Release Date: May 1971
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"