Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers Volume 4: the Seventeenth Century |
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| Editor:
| Considine, John |
| Series title: | Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5693-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $420.00 |
Book Description:
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Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual