1 Typography in sixteenth-century English dictionaries -- 2 Claudius Hollyband: The author behind the lexicographer -- 3 On the sources of Huloets Dictionarie (1572) -- 4 Early polyglot word lists: Investigating their relationship -- 5 Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator reconsidered -- 6 John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist -- 7 John Palsgrave's description of French word-formation-- 8 Peter Levins' description of word-formation (1570)
Summary
This volume examines the ways in which Renaissance lexicographers selected, described, and analysed the lexicon. It explores the extent to which bi- and multilingual word lists and dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character, and discusses the increasing use of typography to present lexical information structure
