Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research

Contents: John Considine, Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage. - Reiko Takeda, Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary? - Ian Lancashire, Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record. - Olga Karpova, Author's Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries. - Natascia Leonardi, An Analysis of a 17th Century Conceptual Dictionary: John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's >>An Alphabetical Dictionary<<. - Rowena Fowler, Text and Meaning in Richardson's Dictionary. - Joan Beal, An Autodidact's Lexicon: Thomas Spence's >>Grand Repository of the English Language<<. - Julie Coleman, The 3rd Edition of Grose's >>Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue<<. - Werner Huellen, Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed. - Thora van Male, From Incipit to Iconophor. - Maria Pilar-Perea, The History of the >>Diccionari Catala-Valencia-Balear<<. - Gregory James, Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the 1st European Lexicographical Work in China. - Antonette diPaolo Healey, Polysemy and the DOE. - Robert E. Lewis, Aspects of Polysemy in the MED. - Eric Stanley, Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the 18th Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English. - Tania Styles, Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in OED3. - Marijke Mooijaart, Citations in the >>Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal<<. - Norman Blake, Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare's Informal English.