Historical dictionaries and historical dictionary research : papers from the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, at the University of Leicester, 2002 / edited by Julie Coleman and Anne McDermott.

The series features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included if they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Thevolumes focus on aspec...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology University of Leicester
Other Authors: Coleman, Julie, McDermott, Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2004.
Series:Lexicographica. Series maior ; 123.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • Dictionary History
  • Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage
  • Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS 0.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary?
  • Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record
  • Author's Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries
  • An Analysis of a Seventeenth Century Conceptual Dictionary with an Alphabetical List of Entries and a Network Definition Structure: John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's An Alphabetical Dictionary (1668)
  • Text and Meaning in Richardson's Dictionary
  • An Autodidact's Lexicon: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language (1775)
  • The Third Edition of Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Bookseller's Hackwork or Posthumous Masterpiece?
  • Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed
  • From Incipit to Iconophor
  • The History of a Multi-dialectal Catalan Dictionary: the Diccionari Català-Valencia-Balear
  • Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in China
  • Historical Dictionaries
  • Polysemy and the Dictionary of Old English
  • Aspects of Polysemy in the Middle English Dictionary
  • Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the Eighteenth Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English
  • Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Citations in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
  • Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare's Informal English
  • Index.