Vietnamese-English Student Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition - Hardcover

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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.

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