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Title Current projects in historical lexicography / edited by John Considine
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 202 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Historical Dictionary Projects / John Considine -- Chapter One Building a Lexical Database of Old English: Issues and Landmarks / Javier Martín Arista -- Chapter Two Progress toward a Historical Dictionary of a Legal Text in Spanish: The Siete Partidas (1256-1265/1491) / Fernando Tejedo-Herrero -- Chapter Three Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 / Juhani Norri -- Chapter Four The Complete History? Dutch words in Four Historical Dictionaries / Marijke Mooijaart -- Chapter Five A New Historical Dictionary of Canadian English as a Linguistic Database Tool, or, Making a Virtue out of Necessity / Stefan Dollinger -- Chapter Six Rethinking the Concise Scots Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century / Maggie Scott -- Chapter Seven Towards a Historical Dictionary of Afrikaans Jeremy Bergerson -- Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms: Views from 2005 / Katherine Barber and John Considine
Summary Current Projects in Historical Lexicography brings together seven papers by present and recent editors of historical dictionaries and lexical databases. The collection is introduced Other an overview of the history of historical lexicography from the ancient world to the present day, Other particular emphasis on the major nineteenth-century dictionaries of German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish, and on their successors. In the first paper, Javier Martín Arista describes the prese ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Language and languages -- Etymology -- Lexicography.
Language and languages -- Etymology -- Lexicography -- Research
Lexicography.
Dictionaries.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Dictionaries.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
REFERENCE -- Dictionaries.
Language and languages -- Etymology -- Lexicography
Historische Lexikografie
Lexikographie -- Geschichte.
Historische Lexikographie.
Etymologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Considine, John (John P.)
LC no. 2010530082
ISBN 9781443821773
1443821772
1282650823
9781282650824
9786612650826
6612650826