Good mono- and bilingual dictionaries and grammar books

[sparkofcreation]

I'm getting ready to teach a course on court interpreting that will be language-neutral, and I'm short on recommendations for the following:

• monolingual general dictionaries
• monolingual legal dictionaries
• bilingual general dictionaries
• bilingual legal dictionaries
• grammar books (the more prescriptivist the better)

Comments

[cartesienne]

as for Russian, the best monolingual dictionaries are available online. here go the ones I used for my PhD materials:

http://feb-web.ru/feb/mas/mas-abc/01.htm
http://www.ozhegov.org/
http://ushdict.narod.ru/

the most renowned though obsolete XIX cent. classic http://vidahl.agava.ru/

[blueserenity22]

For American Sign Language:

ASLPRO
Another ASL dictionary.
Fingerspelling practice

Also, most of the actual books are horrible, or outdated. But those websites are really good :)

[blueserenity22]

However, I forgot about this book. Which is, from what I hear, an accurate book. I have the medical terminology version and it's really helpful. :)

[sparkofcreation]

I guess I wasn't clear-I'm teaching a seminar (same seminar in various places around the state), so I don't need/want to work from the books in question; just something to recommend to the participants that they can use on their own later on.

[desert_sky]

For standard Arabic, the best bilingual dictionary (Arabic-English) is Hans Wehr's Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. The classic monolingual dictionary (Arabic only) is Lisaan al-Arab (لسان العرب). For grammar books, Wright's Grammar of the Arabic Language is a standard work focusing on classical Arabic. Personally, I like Karin Ryding's A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic.

For Egyptian Arabic, there's the excellent Hinds/Badawi Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (Arabic-English). But since it's a dialect, there's not much in the way of prescriptivist grammar books for it. However, there is Ernest T. Abdel-Massih et. al's A Comprehensive Study of Egyptian Arabic, volume three, which is a reference grammar.

[ke_hua]

A great Thai-English dictionary is written by Mary Haas. It has been around since the 60s, but is still the best.

More Thai resources

[telebikun]

The Mary Haas Thai dictionary (Thai-English Student's Dictionary) is indeed very good; it's sort of the student standard