Lexicography

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.