Gabriele Stein

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gabriele Stein is involved.

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The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.

Articles

Stein, Gabriele 2011 The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot’s Dictionary (1538) Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 55–78 | Article

Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword (‘lemma’) and the author’s explanation (‘gloss’). This paper addresses the ways in which compilers link these two components (using formulations such as ‘X means Y,’ ‘X is a mammal of the genus Z’). After a survey of medieval practice,… read more

Stein, Gabriele 1991 Introductory Materials The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755, Starnes, De Witt T. and Gertrude E. Noyes | Section header

Stein, Gabriele 1986 Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries The History of Lexicography, Hartmann, R.R.K. (ed.), pp. 219–228 | Article