Early Modern English Lexicography: Volume 1: A Survey of Monolingual Printed Glossaries and Dictionaries 1475-1640

ISBN-13: 9780198128472 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 504 str.

Jurgen Schafer; Michael Friedrichs; Loretta Schafer

Opis

This two-volume study presents for the first time a census of printed monolingual glossaries and dictionaries published from 1475-1640, as well as a systematic bibliographical description of these works. The volumes are designed as a specialized preliminary examination of the growth and development of English lexicography in the Early Modern English period. Schafer includes lemmatical material listed alphabetically and documented according to the criteria of the Oxford English Dictionary, additions and corrections never before published, and detailed explanations of how the material was assembled lexigraphically. In addition, more than 5,000 main entries comprise neologisms, antedatings, post-datings, unregistered senses, additional citations and corrections. Schafer discusses in detail the question of lexical transmission through sources overlooked in the OED.
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Recenzje

'Schäfer has not only written an immediately useful reference work, but his work has also put either editorial time or foundation money in the bank - in terms of producing an EME dictionary. The study of EME would be greatly advanced, the job of compiling an EME dictionary greatly facilitated, if more of us would devote time to work like Schäfer's. Early Modern English Lexicographyy is bedrock scholarship and will save many of us from building our houses on sand.' Michael Adams, Albright College, Modern Philology

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Data Processing for 'Elizabethan Lexicography'; Systematic Description of Glossaries; Glossaries in Chronological Order; Index of Titles, Translators, Compilers, Editors; Classification According to Subject Matter; Census of Translations; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Method of Registration; Lemmas in Alphabetical Order; Index of Special Category Lemmas.