English Dictionaries, 800-1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Dictionaries, 800-1700 write by Werner H?llen. This book was released on 2006. English Dictionaries, 800-1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores the topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. A form of early dictionary, these lists provide evidence on cultural history and linguistic development.
English Dictionaries, 800-1700
English Dictionaries, 800-1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Dictionaries, 800-1700 write by Werner Hüllen. This book was released on 2006-02-16. English Dictionaries, 800-1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the beginnings of European lexicography and 1700, many glossaries and dictionaries were arranged not according to the alphabet, but in a topical order which followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history at that time. Together with related text genres like treatises on terminology, didactic dialogues, and thesauri, they constitute the topical (or onomasiological) tradition which is an important lexicographical tradition in its own right. This book discusses the tradition's principles and origins, and by way of illustration draws upon early glossaries, treatises for the learning of foreign languages, and didactic dialogues. Later comprehensive works are presented as detailed in-depth studies. Professor Hüllen demonstrates that the English tradition is embedded in a complex Continental tradition whose important representatives, such as Adrianus Junius and Comenius, had a great influence on the English scene.
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG)
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG) write by Bertil Sundby. This book was released on 1991-01-01. A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.
English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.)
English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.) write by Olga M. Karpova. This book was released on 2011-01-18. English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is devoted to the description of typical trends in development, formation and the present state of English Author Lexicography, the roots of which go back to concordances to the Bible and glossaries of the complete works of Chaucer (xvi c.). Part I, “Linguistic Dictionaries to English Writers,” presents lexicographic analysis of old and new concordances, indices, glossaries and lexicons of famous English writers with special reference to Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Dickens. It presents a modern scene of author glossaries for unfamiliar words, terms and other groups of writers’ vocabulary (e.g. Shakespeare’s insults and his erotic language). The reader is offered a detailed review of author concordances, glossaries and lexicons on the Internet, along with criticism of printed dictionaries. Part II, “Encyclopedic Reference Works to English Writers,” deals with English author encyclopedic reference books, i.e. encyclopedias, guides and companions; dictionaries of characters and place names; quotations and proverbs, and Internet encyclopedic resources. The book also provides a comprehensive list of references on author lexicography and an Index of Dictionaries to the English Writers (xvi–xxi cc.), including 300 titles of linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, which is a reliable user guide in the world of English author lexicography.
Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries
Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries write by John Considine. This book was released on 2022-04-08. Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before. The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.
