Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
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Series Editor: Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto,
Canada
This series of five volumes enshrines the collective achievement
of English lexicographers from the Old English period to
the
eighteenth century. These author-scholars are
unique in that they witnessed and analyzed the growth of English
vocabulary over nine hundred years.
The volumes are organized chronologically and discuss historical
and theoretical topics such as: the great range of activity by
anonymous early lexicographers; the gradual evolution of varied
glossarial compilations during the medieval period; the appearance
of a numerous cadre of monolingual, bilingual, law and herbal
lexicographers in the sixteenth century; the emergence, in the
Renaissance, of a more recognizably modern dictionary incorporating
synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features; the
making of the first free-standing monolingual English dictionaries
in the seventeenth century, and of increasingly specialized works
on subjects such as dialect, etymology, medicine, and mathematics;
and the flourishing tradition of English lexicography in the
eighteenth century that unified these many lexical streams and
enabled Samuel Johnson to write his legendary A Dictionary of
the English Language.
Each volume in the series is edited and introduced by a
recognized authority who has surveyed the existing literature and
has selected essays that are regarded as significant contributions
to an understanding of the historical development of dictionaries
during the period. The volumes also include some original essays
specially commissioned for this series, as well as full
indexes.
This series constitutes an indispensable reference resource of
the key essays in the field and is an invaluable research tool for
students of lexicography and English literature, textual history
and bibliography.
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