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Title Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective / edited by John Considine, Giovanni Iamartino
Published Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexicology by a team of twelve contributors working in England, continental Europe, and North America. Fredric Dolezal's opening essay offers a provocative discussion of how the history of English lexicography has been, and might in the future be, written. The next four papers deal with the medieval and early modern periods: Carter Hailey i ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-215) and index
Subject English language -- Lexicography -- History
Lexicography -- Great Britain -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Dictionaries.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
REFERENCE -- Dictionaries.
English language -- Lexicography
Lexicography
Lexikografie
Geschichte
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Considine, John (John P.)
Iamartino, Giovanni
ISBN 9781847181688
1847181686
9781443807210
1443807214