Words in Dictionaries and History

Name: Words in Dictionaries and History | Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie
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Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie

Olga Timofeeva Tanja Säily(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 12. Mai 2011

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Words in Dictionaries and History
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Tabula gratulatoria
Preface
Introduction
Part I. History of dictionaries
The Flores of Ouide (1513): An early Tudor Latin-English textbook
Ovidian pedagogy
Dr. John Colet and "blotterature"
Who was Walter?
References
"Halles Lanfranke" and its most excellent and learned expositive table
Introduction
John Halle
Most excellent and learned
The expositive table
Final words
References
John Lane's Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project
Introduction: The First Booke of the Preservation
The identity of the author
The projected Verball
References
The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot's Dictionary (1538)
Elyot's dictionary in its historical context
Linking lemma and gloss in Old and Middle English word lists
Elyot's linking of lemma and gloss
References
Music amidst the tumult
Johnson and literary coinage
Johnson in practice
Johnson's self-omissions
References
Chaos and old night: A case study in quotation usage
Chaos and old night in dictionaries of quotations
Chaos and old night: Individual word elements
Variation of elements
Conscious or explicit quotation
Political usages
Wordplay (1): Chaos and cold night
Wordplay (2): Chaos and old Knight
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Online dictionaries of English slang
Introduction
Static and dynamic online dictionaries
The dictionaries
The online dictionaries' coverage
Conclusions
References
Part II. Word history and cultural history
Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander's Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787)
1. Introduction
1.1 A survey of Ganander's life and works
1.2 The sources of the Nytt Finskt Lexicon
1.3 Collaboration with Porthan and the fate of the NFL after Ganander's death
2. The Old English material in the etymological sections of the NFL
2.1 Attested and possible sources for Ganander's Old English etymologies
2.2 Principles followed in presenting and discussing the material in Ganander's entries
2.3 Old English etymologies which are correct
2.4 Old English etymologies which are partly correct
2.5 Old English etymologies which are erroneous
3. Final remarks
References
The origin of the word yeoman
The state of the art
Previous attempts to explain the origin of yeoman
The most likely etymology of yeoman: yeoman and yeomath
the rise of yeomanry
References
Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex
1. Introduction
2. Lapidable: Text and context
2.1 Dictionary evidence
2.2 Contextual evidence
2.3 An attempt at an explanation
3. Ale, toast, and literary allusions: EIC merchants and playful language
4. Unanswered questions, promising sources: A conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
From denominal to deverbal: Action nouns in the English suffix al
1. Introduction
2. History and morphology
2.1 Morphological types
3. Productivity and analysability
4. Semantics
4.1 1150-1300
4.2 The 14th century
4.3 The 15th century
4.4 Semantics of ME nouns in -al: Summary
5. Semantics of -al in the 16th and 17th centuries
5.1 Ten plays by Shakespeare
5.2 Neologisms in -al in the 16th and 17th centuries
5.3 Conclusion
References
Appendix 1.
The evidence of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum for the replacement of Roman names by English ones during the early Anglo-Saxon period
References
William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past
Background
The Catalogue of Honor
Lambarde, Milles and Geþyncðo (Be leode geþincðum 7 lage)
The Catalogue and the Textus Roffensis
Spelling and lexis
Conclusions
References
Contempt - the main growth area in the Elizabethan emotion lexicon
Introduction
Nature and structure of the HTE
The field of 'Contempt': Peak years of first attestation
The field of 'Contempt': Internal structure
Some tentative conclusions
Epilogue: 'Contempt' in the printed HTOED
References
A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay
Inclusion and coverage of fencing terms in the OED
A brief introduction to the history of swordplay
Etymology and the history of swordplay
Etymology and swordplay: measure
Etymology and swordplay: lunge
Swordplay in England
Italian fencing masters in England
Spanish influences on swordplay in England
The stockado revisited: A note
Conclusion
References
Index of subjects
Index of personal names

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