Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Name: Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots | The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language
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The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language

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Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Editorial note
1 'A man of Letters'
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Jamieson's life and biographers
1.2.1 Biographical sources
1.2.2 Early life
1.2.3 Ministry in Forfar
1.2.4 The move to Edinburgh
1.3 Antiquarianism
1.3.1 Early works
1.3.2 George Hutton
1.3.3 George Chalmers and Caledonia
1.3.4 Contributions to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
1.4 Jamieson's other publications
1.4.1 Theological works
1.4.2 Poetic works
1.4.3 The Scots poems
1.4.4 Editions of Bruce and Wallace
2 Models and rivals
2.1 Overview
2.2 The Scots glossarists
2.2.1 Beginnings
2.2.2 Thomas Ruddiman
2.2.3 Glossarists after Ruddiman
2.3 Modern Scots
2.3.1 Poetic glossaries: Ramsay and Burns
2.3.2 Lists of Scotticisms
2.4 The idea of a Scots Dictionary
2.4.1 Early proposals
2.4.2 Boswell's Scots dictionary
2.4.3 Hailes's Specimen dictionary
2.4.4 A glossary of Older Scots
2.4.5 Robert Allan
2.5 English dictionaries
2.5.1 Johnson
2.5.2 Earlier English dictionaries
2.5.3 English dialect dictionaries
2.5.4 Jonathan Boucher
2.6 First steps in lexicography
2.6.1 Forfarshire place names
2.6.2 The Statistical Account
2.6.3 The Kelpie glossary
2.7 Summary
3 The Dictionary takes shape
3.1 Overview
3.2 The idea of the Dictionary
3.2.1 Thorkelin: the 'learned stranger'
3.2.2 A start on the Dictionary
3.2.3 Notes on Pinkerton's glossary
3.2.4 A new Scots glossary
3.3 Gathering sources
3.3.1 Fellow bibliophiles
3.3.2 Editions of Older Scots texts
3.3.3 A 'valuable Library'
3.4 Drafting the Dictionary
3.4.1 Compilation notes
3.4.2 The Ruddiman annotations
4 'The Pulse of the Public': promotion and publication
4.1 A potential merger
4.2 Circulation of the Proposal
4.2.1 Promoting the Dictionary
4.2.2 The Proposal
4.2.3 The subscription scheme
4.2.4 Subscribers
4.3 Preparing for publication
4.3.1 'Fifteen months hard labour'
4.3.2 Printing and production
4.4 Publication of the Dictionary
4.4.1 Distribution
4.4.2 Chasing subscribers
5 Inside the Dictionary
5.1 Overview
5.2 Preliminaries
5.2.1 The 1808 Preface
5.2.2 The Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language
5.3 Lexicographic features
5.3.1 Historical principles
5.3.2 Headword form and order
5.3.3 Incorporation of glossaries
5.3.4 Selection of authorities
5.3.5 Spoken usage
5.3.6 Dialect coverage
5.3.7 Other features
5.4 Critical reception
5.5 Summary
6 Revision and collaboration: the Abridgement and Supplement
6.1 A start on the Supplement
6.2 The Abridgement of 1818
6.3 Compiling the Supplement
6.3.1 New sources
6.3.2 Dialect glossaries
6.3.3 Newspapers and periodicals
6.4 Jamieson's contributors
6.4.1 Known contributors
6.4.2 Unknown contributors
6.4.3 The Shortreeds
6.4.4 George Kinloch
6.4.5 Sir Robert Liston: the 'humble coadjutor'
6.5 Sir Walter Scott's contributions to the Supplement
6.5.1 Overview
6.5.2 Scott's manuscript annotations
6.6 Printing and publication
6.7 The Supplement manuscript
6.8 Jamieson's unpublished Additions
7 After Jamieson
7.1 Overview
7.2 Posthumous editions of the Dictionary
7.2.1 Tait and Johnstone: the second edition
7.2.2 Longmuir and Donaldson: the third edition
7.2.3 The last edition
7.2.4 Unofficial supplements
7.3 Jamieson as a lexicographic source
7.3.1 Dictionaries based on Jamieson
7.3.2 Jamieson in the OED and EDD
7.3.3 Jamieson in the SND
7.4 Jamieson in the twentieth century
7.5 Future research
Appendix A: Chronology of events in Jamieson's life
Appendix B: Publication history of the Dictionary and Supplement
Appendix C: Sir Walter Scott's contributions to the Supplement
Bibliography
Index
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