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9780198237846

Lexicography and the OED Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest

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    9780198237846

  • ISBN10:

    0198237847

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-04-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED , and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

Author Biography


Lynda Mugglestone is Fellow in English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer in Language and Communication. She has written widely on nineteenth-century language and associated issuesliterary and linguistic, as well as lexicographic.

Table of Contents

Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Making the OED
OED Sources
Murray and his European Counterparts
Time and Meaning
The Compass of the Vocabulary
Words and Word-Formation
OED and the Earlier History of English
The Vocabulary of Science in the OED
Pronunciation in the OED
An Historian not a Critic
This Unique and Peerless Specimen
OED Sections and Parts
OED Personalia
The OED and the Public
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