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In:The History of Lexicography
Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 40] 1986
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1986
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
A Concise History of the Concise Oxford Dictionary1
Richelet's dictionnaire françois (1680) as a Source of LA PORTE DES SIENCES (1682) and Le Roux's DICTIONAIRE COMIQUE (1718)13
The History of Pronunciation in English-Language Dictionaries23
A Brief History of Chinese Bilingual Lexicography35
How Abstract is the English Dictionary?47
The Development of the Bilingual English-Arabic Dictionary from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present57
The Beginnings of Lexicography in Croatia65
Afrikaans Lexicography75
The duden rechtschreibung 1880-1986: Development and Function of a Popular Dictionary85
Learned Lexicographers of the North: Seventeenth-century vignettes99
The Entry in Medieval Arabic Monolingual Dictionaries: Some aspects of arrangement and content107
The Paradigm of John Wilkins' Thesaurus115
Lexicographic Archaeology: Comparing dictionaries of the same family127
The Humanist Period in Renaissance Bilingual Lexicography137
László Országh, the Lexicographer147
Thematic Lexicography157
Four Remarks on the Prehistory of Historical lexicography167
The First English Dictionary? A sixteenth-century compiler at work175
The Development of the General Monolingual Dictionary in Poland185
Competing lexicographical Traditions in America197
The Bilingual Dictionary - Victim of its own tradition?207
Sixteenth-Century English-Vernacular Dictionaries219
The Three-Century Recension in Spanish and English Lexicography229
Appendix A: Bibliography of Cited Dictionaries241
Appendix B: Seminar Programme258
Appendix C: List of Participants259
List of Contributors263
Illustrations/Tables
Richelet as a source of la porte des siences (1682) and Le Roux's dictionaire comique (1718)22
Title Page, opera nuova che insegna a parlare la lingua schiavonesca (1527)73
Titles of the duden rechtschreibung (1880-1986)97
Title Page, an alphabetical dictionary (Wilkins 1668)125
Title Page, lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse palsgrave (1530)228
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