Lexicography

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages.

This book brings together leading professional and academic lexicographers to report on current developments in the deployment of electronic means in the planning, writing, and dissemination of dictionaries.

Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are encoded in the lexicon, enabling an interface between the lexical component and the computational system/syntax, directly, and the Inference system, indirectly.

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families.

The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary.

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia.

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant.

This comprehensive account of the history of Chinese lexicography is the first book on the subject to be published in English.

This book collects and introduces some of the best and most useful work in practical lexicography.

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries.

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.

Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England.

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties.

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England.

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias.

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias.

As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded.

As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded.

An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!

This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignac Kunos during World War I, specifically from Russian Muslim prisoners of war in Hungarian camps.

Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.

Este volumen reúne nueve trabajos en los que se discuten, desde diferentes perspectivas y ejemplificados por material lingüístico (español y portugués) de distintas épocas, tanto léxico como (meta-)lexicográfico o textual/discursivo, una serie de problemas, para plantear la efimeridad léxica en su diversidad diastrática, diafásica y diatópica.