The History of Lexicography
Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann
Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 40] 1986. viii, 265 pp.












