In:Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie
Edited by Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 14] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 12 May 2011
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Table of contents
Tabula gratulatoria
Preface
Introduction
Part I. History of dictionaries
The Flores of Ouide (1513): An early Tudor Latin-English textbook
“Halles Lanfranke” and its most excellent and learned expositive table
John Lane’s Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project
The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot’s Dictionary (1538)
Music amidst the tumult
Chaos and old night: A case study in quotation usage
Online dictionaries of English slang
Part II. Word history and cultural history
Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787)
The origin of the word yeoman
Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex
From denominal to deverbal: Action nouns in the English suffix -al
A gente Anglorum appellatur: The evidence of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum for the replacement of Roman names by English ones during the early Anglo-Saxon period
William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past
Contempt: The main growth area in the Elizabethan emotion lexicon
A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay
Index of subjects
Index of personal names
